Educating for gardeners and designers

More applying for grants garden education Pursuing on from my previous post, more thoughts how we learn products. I've ...

Teaching gardening skills - the decline stops here!

Two conversations lately about the awful point out of horticultural education in Britain: both with past instructors at (previous) ...

Are you Trust a seed swap seed?

Its February, so it must be seed swap time again! Seed swaps have been growing in popularity for some years now. The best known o...

The Eucalyptus and Mimosa Big Problem in Portugal and Australia

A typical cultural landscape in Coimbra district. The distant hills would be about 90% eucalpytus Just had two weeks in cen...

Japanese Gardens - what are we actually looking at?

Still mulling over our recent trip to Japan, leading a privately-organised tour. It was my second trip, and the first for most of the peop...

'A Garden Flora' - for Christmas reading all year round

Here we are, hot off the press! My new book, which I was working on last year. A reference book, a dipping-in book, an ideal Christmas pres...

Japan - not just stones and raked sand.

Within the space to two days, the chance to see two stupendous examples of Japanese horticulture, but so totally different, and h...