Friday 2 July 2010
As part of The Garden House Plant School we spent Wednesday evening at the quite gorgeous Marchants Hardy Plants, Laughton, in the knowledgeable company of proprietor and plantsman Graham Gough and his partner Lucy Goffin. Following a short career in...
Monday 28 June 2010
Taken from the writings of our London friends at The Womens Room blog: www.thewomensroom.typepad.com/the_womens_room/ I dont go to therapy, instead I garden. It keeps me calm, I can work through all my issues and have imaginary arguments in the greenhouse where no...
Sunday 20 June 2010
Last Wednesday, we were delighted to welcome Peter Thurman to our second Plant School evening. Peter is Kew trained, has tackled thousands of design projects in over 30 years as a landscape and garden designer – from small town gardens, to country...
Monday 14 June 2010
Opening one’s personal space to visiting gardening enthusiasts is a tense business, like baring your soul for all to see. We’re really not sure why we do it it’s an emotionally rocky time one moment you’re revelling in a little...
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Our garden here at The Garden House is run on organic and recycling principles. So we love and admire gardens created to promote similar ideals. At the Chelsea Flower Show last week one of our favourite gardens was Places of...
Saturday 5 June 2010
The Garden House invites you to its first “pop-up restaurant” on Friday 2 July! Come on your own or bring a group of friends to enjoy outdoor eating at its best. We can promise you great company, a beautiful setting...
Saturday 29 May 2010
Brighton-based designer Andy Sturgeon won both gold and Best in Show Garden at CFS with his contemporary gravel garden. A wonderful and adventurous garden in many respects the free-standing rusted steel structures framing stunning planting. Our eyes were particularly drawn to...
Monday 24 May 2010
This excerpt from the late Geoffrey Smiths Easy Plants for Difficult Places (David & Charles 1967) is featured in Garden Wisdom by Leslie Geddes-Brown, a wonderful compilation of writings by many of Britains best admired and loved garden professionals: “Of...
Thursday 20 May 2010
Visit the delightful Houghton Lodge gardens with The Garden House! On Wednesday 23 June we’ve a great day planned – visiting Mottisfont Abbey to see the collection of old-fashioned roses, and Houghton Lodge to see the inspirational garden. Houghton Lodge...
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Here at The Garden House we love knitting! Which is why we’re running two great workshops in July, led by expert knitter Julia Hincks – Knitting Workshop 1: Cable and Texture on 6 July, and Knitting Workshop 2: Colour on 13 July....
Saturday 15 May 2010
Dan Bennett, painter and print-maker, is showing at Studio 106, an artists collective based in a converted warehouse in the Poets Corner district of Hove. Reflecting his love of gardens, Dan’s work beautifully expresses the colour, textures and form of groups and individual...
Saturday 8 May 2010
Visit Lindy’s house at 31 Preston Park Avenue, Brighton, and enjoy the work of several artists creating decorative and functional outdoor artwork and sculpture. Lindy’s house is an artwork in itself an inspiring tapestry of colour, pattern, decorative home accessories...