Garden Chronicles

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

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...

In the Garden with: Cath Kidston MBE

In the Garden with: Cath Kidston MBE

Earlier this week, we spent a rainy morning exploring Cath Kidston MBE’s beautifully scented greenhouses and charming home. The world inside was alive with colour and aroma—rows of pelargoniums in...

In the Garden with: Cath Kidston MBE

Earlier this week, we spent a rainy morning exploring Cath Kidston MBE’s beautifully scented greenhouses and charming home. The world inside was alive with colour and aroma—rows of pelargoniums in...

Inside the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG Near Bath

Inside the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG Near Bath

In this video, we join Zack, THE PIG-near Bath’s Head Gardener, for a tour of the kitchen garden that makes it all possible. Zack explains the four-plot crop rotation system...

Inside the Kitchen Garden: THE PIG Near Bath

In this video, we join Zack, THE PIG-near Bath’s Head Gardener, for a tour of the kitchen garden that makes it all possible. Zack explains the four-plot crop rotation system...