My Garden

Last summer, while losing my mobile phone in the luxuriant dahlia trial (and finding it again the next day) I realised that some visitors, overwhelmed by the flamboyant exhibition types, may have missed some of the best new dahlias of recent years. The Happy Series. which includes the dramatic Happy... Read more..

Last winter there was a huge trial of winter pansies at Wisley. Two hundred and fifty four different entries were grown and many were dazzling in the spring but not so many were consistently good in the winter when they're most needed. And it was for winter flowering that we judged them. The result... Read more..

There’s one place you can go this week to see masses of new plants. Just a short walk from the RHS garden at Wisley , in nearby Wisley village, is Deers Farm, a trials area which is not normally open to the public – but on Thursday and Friday this week it is. And on show there you’ll find some fascinating... Read more..