John Grimshaw's Garden Diary

Margaret Owen, among the old fashioned daffodils she championed in Acton Burnell churchyard. The death of Margaret Owen in late October,...

The fabulous Acanthus sennii , a prickly brute of a suckering shrub with satin flowers, common in scrubby roadside places at 2500-3000 m. ...

Pyrus fauriei A surprisingly lovely day and the chance to get out into the arboretum revealed some really lovely examples of autumn colo...

A Painted Lady on Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Primrose Upward'. The warm sunny this week have seen good numbers of butterflies ...

An eye-catching display on entering the show from Lumen Plantes Vivaces. I spent last week in the beautiful Tuscan town of Lucca, havin...

Ruby Baker, seated where she was always to be found on RHS show days, on the dais in the New Hall, surrounded by friends (in this case Mat...