The Chelsea Flower Show held annually in London’s Royal Hospital Grounds in Chelsea has gardens and displays to delight the senses and inspire your gardening. This Trug Master’s display from 2015 was one of my favorites that year. The Chelsea Flower Show is held annually in May at the Royal …
May 2023 Newsletter: Merry Month of May
Dear Gardening Friends, If you have been following my travels on Instagram or Facebook you will know that I have been busy recently. With trips to England, Holland, and California, I am trying to decide which time zone I like best. Along the way I have taken thousands of photos in preparation …
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Magenta Maligned – Flower Color in the Garden
Colour in My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder is an illustrated garden book from the early 1900’s Gardening Quote ‘MAGENTA THE MALIGNED … I am very fond of this colour as worn by flowers and have taken some trouble to bring it into harmony with its surroundings.’ (Page 223) Louise Beebe …
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March 2023 Newsletter: First signs of springs spotted!
Dear Gardening Friends, Somehow, here we are in March. To state the obvious, we are marching through the year! Sorry about that pun. There are days when I wake up and I can’t help but feeling goofy. I find that the increasing daylength and warmer temperatures do make me feel happy and maybe a …
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Sowing the Seeds of a Flowery Garden
Choosing which seeds to sow Seed sowing is one of the ultimate gardening pleasures. Tucking tiny brownish bundles of potential beauty beneath your potting soil is a lesson in hope and expectation. My Head Gardener, here at Northview Garden, Hanna von Schlegell, and I spend a lot of time …
February 2023 Newsletter: Snowdrops and Bookshops
Dear Gardening Friends, I have to admit that February is not my favorite month and luckily it is a short one. The cold weather and brief gardening days make it rather a trial and I am always glad when March rolls around. One bright spot in the garden is that I can obsess about my snowdrop …
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Snowdrops and Galanthomania
An Enchanting Winter Flower – Snowdrop – Galanthus Gardening Quote for February Snowdrops – ‘The more species and varieties you grow, the more you come to appreciate their finer details and differences, whereas those who are strangers to the subject think that all …
Enliven your Fall Garden with Dahlias
With tips for digging up the tubers and storing them for winter Gardening Quote: ‘If the iris is considered the flower of the rainbow, surely the dahlia might be called the flower of the sunset.’ Louise Bush-Brown, Flowers for Every Garden, Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Dahlias …
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Winter Gardening Book Reading Suggestions
f you are like me, the active part of the gardening year is so busy that there is little time left at the end of the day to read all the books and magazines that I have on my pile. Consequently, the time for reading is winter, and then reading becomes one of my ultimate gardening pleasures. I …
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Winter Seed Sowing in Old Milk Jugs
The first thing to do is to collect your supplies for winter seed sowing – old plastic milk jugs, a knife to cut it, labels and pencil, seeds and watering can with fine rose end, and duct tape. As the days lengthen in the Northern hemisphere it is time to start thinking of growing plants from …
