Garden Chronicles

Join us as we visit beautiful gardens, projects and plantspeople, and learn about their stories.

Musings: Easter, Cape Town & Newness Afoot

Musings: Easter, Cape Town & Newness Afoot

In this edition of Field Notes, Beth shares reflections on the start of the gardening year, winter gardening with cloches, and early spring design work for new Claverton pieces. Writing...

Musings: Easter, Cape Town & Newness Afoot

In this edition of Field Notes, Beth shares reflections on the start of the gardening year, winter gardening with cloches, and early spring design work for new Claverton pieces. Writing...

In the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG-in the New Forest

In the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG-in the New Forest

Early autumn at THE PIG-in the New Forest feels calm but full: apples hanging heavy on the trees, the last summer crops still thriving in the tunnels, and the first...

In the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG-in the New Forest

Early autumn at THE PIG-in the New Forest feels calm but full: apples hanging heavy on the trees, the last summer crops still thriving in the tunnels, and the first...

In the garden with: Gaz Oakley

In the garden with: Gaz Oakley

Among the hills of rural Wales, Gaz Oakley has built a smallholding that produces much of what he eats in summer - a garden alive with vegetables, flowers, and the...

In the garden with: Gaz Oakley

Among the hills of rural Wales, Gaz Oakley has built a smallholding that produces much of what he eats in summer - a garden alive with vegetables, flowers, and the...

In the Garden with: Butter Wakefield

In the Garden with: Butter Wakefield

Recently, we spent a breezy afternoon in Butter’s own West London garden, a place where trellises tangle with jasmine, birds dip into shallow water bowls, and a gentle hum of...

In the Garden with: Butter Wakefield

Recently, we spent a breezy afternoon in Butter’s own West London garden, a place where trellises tangle with jasmine, birds dip into shallow water bowls, and a gentle hum of...

In the Garden with: Polly Nicholson

In the Garden with: Polly Nicholson

Last week, on a still, sunlit day in early Spring, we stepped through the gates of Blackland House and into Polly Nicholson’s extraordinary walled garden: an immaculately designed and quietly...

In the Garden with: Polly Nicholson

Last week, on a still, sunlit day in early Spring, we stepped through the gates of Blackland House and into Polly Nicholson’s extraordinary walled garden: an immaculately designed and quietly...

Inside the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG-at Combe

Inside the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG-at Combe

In the latest instalment of our In the Kitchen Garden series, we head to THE PIG-at Combe: a beautiful Elizabethan hotel tucked inside Devon’s lush Otter Valley. Just a few...

Inside the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG-at Combe

In the latest instalment of our In the Kitchen Garden series, we head to THE PIG-at Combe: a beautiful Elizabethan hotel tucked inside Devon’s lush Otter Valley. Just a few...