The double tall beeches make a tunnel along which the visitor travels on the top of a levee above the surrounding landscape. This is the driveway to Drummond Castle, near Criefff in Perthshire. We swooped in like bats and burst out at the far end by a tower house settled on a rock, commanding the…
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Fleetingly at the Garden History Museum
On the south bank of the Thames and right next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s London digs, is a deconsecrated church. It’s graveyard, carved up like a wedge of cheese by busy road is the resting place of the illustrious in trade and horticulture. There is a prosperous wax chandler, the man who…
Interest in the #Chelsea Flower Show
will soon burst into the stampede of wildebeest hooves.
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WHO? Dan Pearson WHY? Because he is articulate, a top notch plantsman and good looking too. He walks quietly through the landscape and takes what he sees in nature as the inspiration for his garden making.