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Home & Garden, Out & AboutFebruary 17, 2017

Gardening Magazines, Dig Delve, Burberry and Henry Moore

By Amanda

Gardening Magazine round-up January and February are the ‘months of hope’ for gardeners, we spend all our time reading seed catalogues, bookmarked web pages on fancy new perennials and imagining that THIS YEAR will be the one where not one… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 19, 2016

Gardening in Small Spaces with Nicola Sweeting

By Amanda

In the third of garden designer Nicola Sweeting’s guest blogs, she’s looking at gardening in small spaces….For more inspiration check out Nicola’s Pinterest boards. When most of us think of gardens we think of lawns, shrubs and herbaceous borders, trees,… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingFebruary 17, 2016

Grow Your Own Cake by Holly Farrell

By Amanda

This book had me at the cover really, as a keen gardener and cook, the idea of being able to combine the two in one read was appealing. Our favourite Reader’s Digest cookery books from years ago did this brilliantly,… Read More

Things We LoveDecember 2, 2015

The Present Tree

By Amanda

We loved this idea from The Present Tree, a mail order company that sends out small trees, beautifully wrapped and with full instructions for care, for any occasion. Including Christmas. You could gift a bay tree, or a wild pear,… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingNovember 23, 2015

The Crafted Garden by Louise Curley

By Amanda

I can never get enough of these garden ideas books, particularly when they are full of fabulous images and easy to follow instructions. This lovely book by Louise Curley divides its decorative botanical projects by season, its winter section is… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingJuly 21, 2015

Companion To Scented Plants by Stephen Lacey

By Amanda

While on holiday I re did a bit of my garden and wanted to put in only plants that flowered and smelled fabulous. This book was on the review pile and became my sole reference for what to plant. It… Read More

Home & GardenApril 30, 2015

Adventures Before Dementia, Gardener’s World

By Amanda

We’re back in France with Bebe, and this week we’ve moved to the garden… Anyone who like me has spent years living in the city without any outside space bigger than the window-sill will know what it feels like to… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingMarch 3, 2015

First Ladies of Gardening by Heidi Howcroft

By Amanda

Some of the most inspirational women in gardening are listed in this lovely new book by Heidi Howcroft, with images by Marianne Majerus. From Mary Keen and Helen Dillon, Gill Richardson, Rosanna James and Sue Whittington, 14 new and experienced… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 18, 2014

Garden Inspiration for a sunny weekend

By Jane

Remember Amanda’s post on the wonderful house and gardens at Great Dixter. If like me you still haven’t managed to make the trip there, you might enjoy this lovely film from Nowness. The master of English horticulture, gardener Christopher Lloyd’s… Read More

Home & GardenJune 13, 2014

We love: organic edible flowers from Maddocks Farm

By Amanda

Middleagedad will only allow me to have one dinner party a year as he is not a fan of them. I think I might have put him off them right back when our sons were younger and we were busy… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 17, 2014

One useful thing to buy from Gudrun Sjödén

By Amanda

As I write, the weather here in London is as close to perfect for an early spring day as is imaginable. There are no clouds in the sky, the sun is warm and the blossom is bursting out all over… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 12, 2013

A few things to buy from Toast- particularly if you’re a gardener

By Amanda

All this talk of fashion week has us quite exhausted already, even before we’ve decided what to wear (hope you all saw Jane’s beautiful Solar System Tatty Devine necklace on our Instagrams yesterday?) Where once I would have invested in… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 11, 2012

Jo Malone and Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park

By Amanda

Jo Malone Limited and the gardening charity Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park is a newly refurbished, fragrant floral retreat waiting to be discovered. You must go if you are a garden fan. The fragrance company has funded the… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 12, 2011

Martha Moments: wrapped amaryllis bulbs for Christmas

By Amanda

I was in Amsterdam last week for a flying visit and spotted these lovely Christmas-wrapped amaryllis bulbs. Now, the Dutch know a thing or two about bulbs, as we all know, but I think this is the first time I’ve… Read More

Things We LoveMarch 3, 2011

The Woottens catalogue

By The Womens Room

We have recently been tipped off about the beautiful Woottens catalogue by our friends over at A Little Bird, who raved about its beauty. If you are a gardener, then nothing beats quietly settling down with a glass of wine… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 18, 2010

Style icon: Constance Spry

By The Womens Room

Constance Spry (1886 – 1960) was a florist, social reformer, teacher and best selling author. She encouraged people to make their homes look beautiful with flowers and foliage picked form hedge rows and scraps of wasteland. She used a unusual… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 7, 2009

We love: cherry tree rental

By The Womens Room

This weekend there's been a distinct autumn chill in the air and we're sad, as it means that the end of summer is nigh. Not that it's been the blistering barbecue one we were promised, but we have had fun in… Read More