Gardening
Fertile minds: How a garden in Hampton Court could help alleviate crop shortages in Africa
Sometimes you wander around a flower show looking at the names of the gardens' sponsors and wonder why they're spending all that money. But that's not the case with the garden being backed by Kirstine Dunhill's charity, Send a Cow, at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. As she says: "We're just farmers helping farmers."
Inside Gardening
Urban Gardener: Murder most florid
Saturday, 5 July 2008
A small exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show this year, tucked quietly up in its north-west corner, was a landmark as far as show gardens are concerned. Entitled "More Questions Than Answers", the outline of a fallen figure in white roses with red petals for blood, questioned our obsession with Health and Safety laws, and the disparity between sending soldiers into conflict unprotected while not letting our children play conkers at school. Emotive, political, conceptual stuff, something the Royal Horticultural Society has been a bit nervous of in the past. The fact that Tony Smith managed to ensconce himself at an event that clearly didn't have a conceptual category suggests that they were beguiled by his triumph at Hampton Court last year where his garden "In Digestion" won Best in Show in the conceptual category. Needless to say it was a breath of fresh air – so Smith's exhibit this year at the Hampton Court Flower Show is eagerly awaited.
Spreading the gospel of the garden shed
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Alex Johnson loves sheds. Not just your common-or-garden, poisonous-chemical-harbouring, rainy day at the allotment sheds, though. He likes Virginia Woolf's shed, a delicate affair with a fold-down desk for writing. He likes Le Corbusier's shed, a cabin painted with abstract murals perched on a hilltop overlooking Monaco. Just don't mention the Reverend Jamie Allen, the vicar who said recently that men need a shed as an escape from marriage. For Johnson, a garden shed is not a sanctuary; it's a genuine place of work.
This is summer: gardens
Sunday, 29 June 2008
This Sunday 6 July don't miss the second in our four-part summer series - a free gardens magazine.
Anna Pavord: Weekend Work
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Urban gardener: Busman’s holiday
Saturday, 28 June 2008
It's natural to want a break after exhibiting a show garden, but with projects "on hold" and new clients calling, leaving the office unmanned right now is just plain daft. Weekends and short breaks, however, are permitted and we've planned a number of busman's holidays to gardens and nurseries in the spirit of CPD (Continuous Personal Development) and, if I'm honest, as a distraction from the fact that we have lost what little control we had at our allotment during our recent Chelsea stint.
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