Noel's Garden Blog

Looking around classical Chinese gardens in Suzhou has been utterly fascinating. They are so different to any other garden spaces I have see...

    This has taken a long time to post - all my efforts to blog in China didn't work. One can get paranoid about the 'Great Firewall...

My very first blog (I think) was about a big new border at my new home. I had planted it in lines, one metre apart, basically as plants came...

    Penelope Hobhouse was our guest at Vista (London’s Garden Museum) last month. The podcast is now up on the Gardens Illustrated website: ...

A trip to Scotland to go to Cambo House, famous for its snowdrops, although I’m writing about the garden in September. The snowdrops are pre...

    Quite a historic occasion at Kew last night. The first time in nearly a century that the directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and ...

    I've been slogging away for years, off and on, at a PhD, looking at long-term performance of ornamental perennials, now passed, so D...