Gardener's Journal

  November brought a change of tone and pace to the garden with its fading light levels and the weather beginning to turn to wetter and colder conditions. The final...

by Jenny Huddart Autumn has arrived in the garden with the shades of the garden turning, light levels becoming more muted, temperatures dropping and the days becoming shorter.  We had...

by Jenny Huddart I think we can now safely say that all hope of a last minute ‘Indian Summer’ has passed. The arrival of September, with yet more rain, and...

In August, we finally began to feel some much-needed heat of a summer. The sprinklers went into overdrive some weeks and the gardeners desperately sought jobs in the shade! This...

by Jenny Huddart  July – what a month of extremes. I know it is a very British affliction to discuss the weather, but it would be very difficult to talk...

By Jenny Huddart, Head Gardener  If May was the month of sowing and planting out, June was the month of staking, training and deadheading. The carefully tended dahlias are now...