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A guided tour of Prince Charles’ gardens at Highgrove impresses Jane Moore I have been to Highgrove twice. The first...
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Make your 2020 garden the best yet with Elly West’s month-by-month task planner While it’s generally a quiet and contemplative...
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Elly West heads north of the city to chat to former royal gardener Robert Dunster Looking around other people’s gardens is something I love to do. Whatever the size or style, there are always ideas and sources of inspiration to be found, even if it’s just a single plant, a...
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Bristol-based award-winning RHS garden designer Jason Loh welcomes us into the magical world of the winter garden, with plenty of...
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Grab your waterproofs, sunnies and notepad and be inspired this spring: it’s Elly West’s rough guide to garden show visiting...
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Summer is coming on leaps and bounds at the University of Bristol Botanic Garden and can still be enjoyed from your own armchair. By Alice Maltby Like the best of the ripping yarns from the “Boys Own” magazines of old, intrepid plant explorers risked life and limb to bring back...
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They’re called feathered friends for a reason, says Elly West. This month our gardening columnist is urging us to do...
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Elly West’s latest garden designs have been inspired by the balance and spirituality of the Far East W hen I...
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Elly West is encouraging us to have a go at growing our own this month… Anyone who has ever grown their own edibles will know how rewarding it can be, and it’s a feeling of satisfaction that goes beyond the obvious health and cost benefits. Whether it’s a few strawberries...
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A growing number of artists and artisans are opting for ‘shedworking’, setting up light, warm and airy studios conveniently sited...
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Any garden, large or small, can accommodate climbers: this month Elly West is all about that other dimension An established...
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It’s hard to find two such unlikely bedfellows as the begonias and delphiniums at Blackmore & Langdon’s, says Elly West Much of my work as a garden designer is about finding planting combinations that complement each other, looking at colour, form and texture. Sometimes it’s about creating harmony and at...