Garden Chronicles

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

Musings: The Most Romantic Garden in England?

Musings: The Most Romantic Garden in England?

There are gardens one visits, and there are gardens one enters - as though passing through a door in time. Rousham, in Oxfordshire, is the latter. Since William Kent first...

Musings: The Most Romantic Garden in England?

There are gardens one visits, and there are gardens one enters - as though passing through a door in time. Rousham, in Oxfordshire, is the latter. Since William Kent first...

In Conversation With: Rollo Skinner

In Conversation With: Rollo Skinner

For this In Conversation With, we catch up with artist, writer and botanical set designer Rollo Skinner. There is a narrow strip of woodland at the edge of the house...

In Conversation With: Rollo Skinner

For this In Conversation With, we catch up with artist, writer and botanical set designer Rollo Skinner. There is a narrow strip of woodland at the edge of the house...

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...