Where is this year going?! Where on earth did summer go?! It's the end of August and the weather is turning to Autumn already, rainy, cold and grey. Leaves of trees on Clapham Common and plants in the garden are actually turning already too. War on slugs and snails Our garden is completely infested. This year has| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
Warning: look away now if you don't want to read self-reflective pointless twaddle. Exactly a year ago this week I visited RHS Wisley for the first time - I was on a mission to see the National Dahlia Society annual show. Like so many things on my recent gardening adventures, I can't really remember why| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
Last Sunday I gave myself the morning off writing projects and decided to visit Bonnington Square on the recommendation of my friend Lucy (about 30 mins walk away from our flat). Of course, for many years I had heard about this place of tropical wonder hidden in Vauxhall, somehow involving garden designer Dan Pearson (which| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I love lots of plants people call weeds (see my book) but there are some plants that can be problematic in gardens and worth removing, such as ground elder, Aegopodium podagraria. Ground elder is a beautiful plant, with attractive green leaves and white umbels of flower that look like short cow parsley in early summer.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
