It’s 8:30am and I’m already on the Sauternes (a sweet dessert wine). It’s grey outside and it rained almost 2cm yesterday. At least I had the good fortune to get …

It’s been a few weeks and the persistent rain has quietened down to the occasional shower but it still isn’t really that warm. If it was mid-May then it would …

Well, it’s been… a while. We last left off at the end of our first and busiest ever NGS season. Ten events – five public – five by arrangement – …

It’s technically October but botanically September. With recent temperatures approaching 25°C and wall-to-wall sunshine, we’re kind-of having the summer we should have had, it’s just several months late. The garden …

It’s been a while since the last post and that’s mainly because the second half of the season had several NGS Open Days and private group visits packed in. In …

We’re well into summer now and I’m sat here wearing sweatpants, long sleeves and a dressing gown, trying to keep warm. It’s no secret that summer in the UK this …

We’ve just had another Public NGS Open Day and so I slept in til around 10:30am this morning. Five events down, five to go. We’re at the half-way mark and …

Walk around the garden at this time of year and you’re assailed from all sides by scented plants. Most have fragrant flowers, some have fragrant leaves that are planted to …