My Garden

I love sweet peas, in fact I like them so much I wrote a whole book about them , and I'm always eager for the first ones to come into flower. Picking the first few stems for the house is always a sign that summer is really here. So I was pleased to be able to look over the sweet pea trial at Wisley... Read more..

Most trials concentrate on a particular type of plant - usually one genus like Dahlia or Dianthus . But occasionally a whole group of similar plants from a wide variety of genera is trialled together because they have useful similarity - and this year it's the annual climbers. These are invaluable... Read more..