Noel's Garden Blog

On a recent trip to the US I found myself in several conversations with people about animals in the garden. Some astonishment that we...

A particularly delicious Trillium underwoodii form. Tony Avent's Plant Delights Nursery near Raleigh in North Carolina is legendar...

Prunus mume, an exquisite early-flowering plum,  thrives in the South, where the hot sticky summers are so much like its native Far East, ...

This almost-black hellebore looks like something straight out of a Victoran funeral. Of all black flowers they have to be the best A w...

Nature in the city has gotta look pretty. The New York High Line In a recent, and well-argued post, fellow blogger Thomas Rainer quot...

Back home from two months away in South America, and there is a lot to do the garden, although our one-day-a-week gardener, Diana had got...

Two very different walking experiences in the foothills of the Andes; the first was beautiful but badly eroded scenery with only a li...