Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

I’ve said this to a few non-horti friends and they look blankly at me as if I am peaking another language, which in their world I probably am. Chelsea week is the pinnacle of many many months of hard work from a select number of designers and their wider, very devoted ‘teams’.

The RHS [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

I’ve been meaning to head to Hyde Hall for longer than I care to share, it’s been on the ever growing list and because it’s not all THAT far away there was a certain level of guilt that I hadn’t made the effort.

As we skidded into the end of April, and my looming birthday, [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

The road, or path in this case, less travelled. Pine woods banking the North Norfolk coast at Wells-next-the-Sea. Made up of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Maritime pine(Pinus pinaster) and Corsican Pine (Pinus nigra var. maritima)

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

I must admit to being the most terrible Orchid killer. I’ve been given several over the last few years and all have died except the last, a Cimbidium. Perhaps this was due to ‘not paying due care and attention’ to them or simply leaving it too the point of drooping leaves and dried out crackling [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

At the beginning of Autumn it is easy to tell myself that the grasses and herbaceous perennials with good seed heads and strongish stems will look good throughout the winter months.

Bringing a hint of glamour with each over night frosty dip and a certain charming collapsed-ness as you [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

It’s about that time of year when people who love their gardens and the process of growing start getting a bit antsy about the weather. Not being able to get outside due to inclement weather is one of the things that drives me nuts at this time of year although being a pro now I [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

I am feeling slightly flat today having missed posting yesterday. ‘One a month’ was the original mantra, I missed Jan 2013 by a whisker of activity. Ho Hum, not going to give myself a hard time about it but ho hum!

So Hippeastrum…You’re probably wondering why on earth I would be writing about this [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Well 2013 turns out to be the year I get white page fear, writers block..whatever you call it. In the last few weeks, well it’s been lurking for months tell the truth, I’ve had this feeling I don;t know who I am talking to and consequently I find myself not sure what to say. Not [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

It’s been a roller coaster of a year 2012 though on the whole as many ups as downs. It started brilliantly well and sort of coasted in a bit from there.

6 weeks between posts is long even by our standards but December has been busy, mostly thwarted by rain and wind and then of [...]

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design

Rosewarne Gardens - Bedfordshire Garden Design