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Have yourself a very British Summer

As the extended Jubilee Bank holiday nears and with Chelsea around the corner, we are looking forward to a very British summer. Providing it's not one of these...

or these

It's time for a trim

If only Edward Scissorhands was real and employable... (we'd have him) . -  That time has finally come around again when everyone's gardens can get clipped and shaped. 

Here come the girls...

At last, the 2012 Tulip blog. Whilst planting thousands of Tulips in gardens all over Oxfordshire in Autumn 2011 we talked a lot about Tulips in this blog. Finally we can share the results with you this year. Here is selection with more to follow in the forthcoming season. Here come the girls...

Colour blocking : Mondrian style

 

All good things come to those who wait...

 

What a wash out this week has been... days of torrential April showers and today came the hail.

but be glad it wasn't this size

Water, water everywhere & not a drop to spare

and with the enforcement of the hosepipe ban on the 5th of April came the rain... almost as if nature herself decided to preside over our gardens in their greatest hours of need.

as mad as a box of rabbits...

Meadow Doellstaedt, central Germany

there's no place like home...

In the UK front gardens are steeped in tradition but the quintessentially English home front is rapidly in decline as urbanisation spreads and the demand for parking in market towns and the more rural communities increases at an alarming rate.

Gardens Reloaded 2/12

With Spring just around the corner it's time for the second Gardens Reloaded blog of 2012.

(Picture above: by Andreas Verheijen, The Flower Engineer)

Pretty in Pink, from pastel to bold

(Audrey Hepburn pictured above)

From fuschia to pastel shades here is our colour blocked garden inspiration. Spring is just around the corner. Let's think pink