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The joys of late summer 16 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Hesperantha coccinea ‘Major’ or Kaffir Lily The clear, sunny mornings now have a distinct chill to them and while mid-day temperatures are well into the high 20′s, you cannot help but be aware, with ...
White garden blues 5 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
white Antirrhinum I created a white border along the west boundary of our rear garden, gradually hiding a concrete fence that I find particular offensive. Now this has become slightly wider and of a ...
Wild orchids in central France 19 Jun 2013 | 05:59 pm
If you have been reading this blog for any length of time (of course you have!) you will know that we now live in central France, after many years, many homes and a long horticultural career based in ...
A great gardening weekend in France 30 May 2013 | 05:29 pm
As if our life was not exhilarating enough already, this weekend is one of the most important in the French gardening calendar. I am still reeling from the joys of the Courson Plant Fair and a tour I ...
Loire Valley Gardens – the May 2013 tour 28 May 2013 | 02:28 pm
The weather was not as kind as it might have been for this month’s tour; in fact, it has been the wettest and coldest May in France since the 1920′s. My Australian guests were made of tough stuff howe...
Courson plant purchases and the latest Loire Valley gardens tour 24 May 2013 | 08:22 pm
Last Friday we travelled up to the leafy outskirts of Paris for our yearly pilgrimage to the Journées des Plantes de Courson, the bi-annual plant fair now in its 58th year. Many of the nearly 300 nurs...
Chaumont Festival preview & Courson dreaming. 13 May 2013 | 06:08 pm
Last week we were invited to the preview of the Festival of Gardens at Chaumont-sur-Loire. This is surely one of Europe’s must-see events both for landscape / garden design professionals and the amate...
Discovering new Loire Valley gardens 26 Apr 2013 | 06:23 pm
Readers of the Garden Design Academy blog will have read that in a previous life I worked as a Royal Gardener at Windsor Palace. For the last two weeks however, I have been teaching and touring with a...
Easter weekend: the first Cuckoo and the second plant fair. 2 Apr 2013 | 05:37 pm
Easter was not warm; in fact it has been the coldest March in the north of France since records began. Sheltered from all directions here in the centre of France, even we have had cool nights with tem...
The first garden show of the year and other excitements 26 Mar 2013 | 08:45 pm
As spring takes hold of central France the season is confirmed by a flurry of garden and plant shows, not to mention all the local spring fairs and Easter events coming up at the end of the week. Of c...
