Noel's Garden Blog

'Intermingling' has become the buzzword of the moment in planting design. Here is a piece I wrote for the Ecological Landscaping...

Weihenstephan: meet a German gardener or landscape designer, and the chances are, they studied here. Its a unique institution, with no rea...

Stachys macrantha at the centre. A solid clump-forming perennial it is in the company of a blue Geranium pratense behind a white Ch...

I haven't written a blog posting for ages, having been very busy, and a holiday etc. But I thought I should write someth...

A trip to Spain, for the first time in more than twenty years. In this time, I have spent 2 months in Argentina, Uruguay and Bol...

Gardeners are underpaid. We all know that. They are also often not understood. All too often I have been involved profession...

When I had a nursery business, back in the 1980s-1990s, one of my gripes was the problem of plants being sold at too low a pr...