The pinks and purples are really arriving in the garden now, and this weekend brought the first Hollyhock as well as the first Buddleia. I wanted to create something with the hollyhock, although it’s not easy as each flower has a tiny stem and I didn’t...

30 June, 2014 /

There are masses of seed pods in the garden at the moment. I particularly like the Love in a Mist ones although the opium poppy heads are pretty lovely too. As I've never grown either of these before  it's a real treat to include them...

26 June, 2014 /

When the Nasturtiums start opening in the garden, for me it really marks the beginning of Summer and also the promise of Autumn...

25 June, 2014 /

I spent the weekend in Cornwall, as we were having a wonderful new bespoke bench delivered by friends; Ewan had made the bench (Holly basically makes most of the beautiful ceramics I own! ). I arrived back to a rather parched garden amidst an overturned row of...

24 June, 2014 /

It's the details in nature that have always completely fascinated me and I am perpetually amazed and grateful at the abundance of beautiful wild plants and creatures, with their extroidinary designs surrounding us.  There is a passage in the preface of this 1930's book 'The Look-About-You...

19 June, 2014 /

Whilst some of the flowers in the garden continue  to flower abundantly, others seem to be coming to the end of a floral burst. The sweet peas are a joy and the pinks are producing loads more flowers this year too, but the Campanula seem to...

19 June, 2014 /

So, driving back from the shops, I see this extroidinary display of wild flowers in a very un-extroidinary part of Brighton...

18 June, 2014 /

Ever since I was really young I’ve had a fascination for grasses. I was always amazed that when just sitting in a park or playground I was surrounded by so many different species and when I was about 6 I asked for The Observers Book of...

17 June, 2014 /