Gardening Book of the Year 2022 - The Times & Sunday Times "This packed book covers creating a garden from scratch; growing herbs, edibles and house plants; and the final chapter discusses how to connect with the environment beyond the garden gate." Best Gardening Books of the Year 2023 - Gardens Illustrated "Exceptional, distinguishing itself| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais'. Grown among grasses, the foliage dissolves with snaking blackcurrant purple and pink spires rising from the froth. Everyone was talking about it and I was hooked, ordering seeds from Chiltern Seeds to sow that spring. In our| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
A group of plants I grow a lot in my own garden and in my clients' garden designs is the perennial Salvias. Salvias are part of the mint family, the Lamiaceae and you can see they're related both in the look of the leaves and also the shape of the flowers. It's the scent that| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
Snowdrops are one of my favourite flowers in the garden, the regular Galanthus nivalis is about as perfect a plant as can exist. With a beautiful white flower with green markings that, unusually, hangs upside down on a fine stem, coupled with narrow pale green leaves. Regular snowdrops are inexpensive so you can buy quite| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
