Noel's Garden Blog

T he Victorian era was a true golden age for gardeners in Britain. Looking through the magazines, books and nursery catalogues of the pe...

Modern public spaces allow for new forms of social interaction Just spent a couple of days in Dubai (on the way back from Indi...

I recently had to review a book, a mainstream, lavishly illustrated, rather general book on choosing and using ornamental plants. I su...

Molinia caerulea supsp. arundinacea glowing in recent November sunlight - the worst offender for seedings, not so much the quantity ...

One of Adam Baros's plantings at the Dendrological Garden in Pruhonice, which has survived a scorching summer My recent post about ...

Three years ago, round about this time of year I visited le Jardin de Berchigranges, in the Vosges mountains of eastern France. A...