John Grimshaw's Garden Diary

Hampton Court Palace from the rose garden: the palace gardens were looking splendid: I hope visitors to the show took time to enjoy them t...

The arboretum lake Although really visiting Yorkshire to look for somewhere to live, I took the opportunity yesterday to take a short wa...

 Natalie Garton's pink sage Making a real contribution to the garden at the moment is a bush of culinary sage, Salvia officinalis ...

Beautifully kept hedges at Covertside. The weather this week has alternated between beautifully fine and quite dreadful, so anyone planni...

Meconopsis napaulensis (as labelled, probably a hybrid), on Battleston Hill. A meeting at Wisley yesterday gave me the opportunity to ha...

Dianthus barbatus 'Heart Attack' Dactylorhiza   x grandis Blackthorn clone Goatsbeard 'clock' ( Tragopogon praten...

10 a.m.: the border with large bare gaps. Last summer it became apparent that the big herbaceous border at Colesbourne Park had become ...