Sunday 22nd June – 12 – 6pm – Garden open for the National Gardens Scheme I am afraid that we have been so focused on getting the Growing Garden next door into shape for the garden opening that my garden has had to take a back seat – if not in care then at least …
National Gardens Scheme
December 2024 – but exciting plans for 2025….
The garden is looking distinctly Decemberish – dead ferns and very green mirrors thanks to all the rain. But the heron is glad to shed his green mantle for a few months – and Darby and Joan are still striding out. Although the grass is now all shorn, the large white hydrangea now a rather …
Welcome to a plantswoman’s garden in Faversham
As you walk up the street towards Sarah Langton-Lockton’s house in Faversham your eye is caught by a blood red cloud of dahlias and rose blossoms clustered around the gate to her house – a foretaste of the plantsman’s feast that will greet you in her garden. (For those who want to know, the rose …
Winter gardening
Gardeners seem to be divided these days between the traditionalists who like to ‘put a garden to sleep for the winter’ and those who have bought into the theory that you should just abandon a winter garden to get on with itself. Abandoning it allows wildlife to do its ‘thing’ before you get going on …
For garden and dog lovers…
This is Harold. Harold is 15 weeks old today. He is a miniature wire haired dachshund and he belongs to Sarah – and, as you can see, he truly loves her. This is a white Scabious. The scabious also belongs to Sarah. And this is the Thames estuary just outside Faversham where Sarah, Harold and …