The ninth week of watching colour and beauty emerge on each and every day of this surreal spring. Sunday 17 May Traditionally this is the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, but for the first time since WWII it was cancelled, and gardeners had to make do with Monty Don and Jo Swift joshing and reminiscing … Continue reading Week 9: Andover Garden Watch 2020 – a very special spring

The eighth week of watching colour and beauty emerge on each and every day of this surreal spring Now midway through the season, the early flowering gives way to harbingers of summer. The garden is every shade of green, through which new shapes and colours shyly appear. The roses are on the point of blazing, and […]

This seventh week is the mid point of this surreal spring season in which we watch colour and beauty emerge on each and every day. Halfway to mid-summer’s day, the advance guard subsides, and new joys await.... Sunday 3 May  The fences here have all been put to work - supporting the trained mulberry and … Continue reading Week 7: Andover Garden Watch 2020 – a very special spring

2020 - the sixth week watching colour and beauty emerge on each and every day of this year’s surreal spring Sunday 26 April  The perennial and annual flowers are not far behind the bulbs and the blossom in this warm spring The water irises emerge (despite the ravages of Ratty the water-vole) Here’s the first … Continue reading Week 6: Andover Garden Watch 2020 – a very special spring