The Idler Academy
There isn’t a plant, let alone a garden, in this pic, but rest assured that come 21st May, the Idler Academy will have a generous coating of chlorophyll. It’s going … Read more
Flower shows
Exhibition veg
To be honest, I’ve never really got exhibition veg. Why would you go to extreme measures to grow an onion the size of a football or a parsnip that’s a … Read more
Cinema Paradiso
When I studied garden design a few years ago, my friend Mark used to sit at the class Naughty Table, while I was on the Smutty Table. This was due … Read more
Gwyneth Paltrow
My mum always used to say that if the Queen went past the bottom of our road, she wouldn’t wouldn’t so much as leave the house to give her a … Read more
Chelsea – the verdict
What to say about the ‘greatest flower show on earth’ (as Alan Titchmarsh says year after year)? For what it’s worth, I liked Cleve West’s garden best (and not just … Read more
Press day at Chelsea
Take one freezing, scantily clad model… Alan Titchmarsh looking dapper… Rachel de Thame looking fetching… Some judges looking serious… A scary lady in a high-vis jacket keeping everyone away from … Read more