29 Dec Garden Design How to prune salvias and when to do it – three pruning groups | Jack Wallington December 29, 2024 By jrfrybmy A group of plants I grow a lot in my own garden and in my clients’ garden designs is the perennial Salvias. Salvias are ... Continue reading
27 Dec Garden Design How to grow Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’ from seed | Jack Wallington December 27, 2024 By jrfrybmy A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’. Grown ... Continue reading
25 Dec Garden Design How to grow organic tomatoes including heirloom tomatoes | Jack Wallington December 25, 2024 By jrfrybmy Tomatoes sit atop everyone’s grow your own lists, and if they don’t, they should! Relatively easy to grow – with a few q... Continue reading
23 Dec Garden Design Early spring flowering plants at Stillingfleet Lodge Garden and Nursery, York | Jack Wallington December 23, 2024 By jrfrybmy Stillingfleet Lodge, on the outskirts of York, is a garden that has been managed organically for wildlife for the best p... Continue reading
21 Dec Garden Design 1,000 Landscapes | Jack Wallington December 21, 2024 By jrfrybmy Over the last few years I’ve been learning to draw and paint landscapes better, and across 2025 I aim to accelerate that... Continue reading
19 Dec Garden Design How to create carpets of colour, Cluny House Gardens, Scotland | Jack Wallington December 19, 2024 By jrfrybmy One sunny afternoon in late-April, while working on a remote landscape design in Scotland, I took the opportunity to pop... Continue reading
17 Dec Garden Design Britain has an arts funding crisis | Jack Wallington December 17, 2024 By jrfrybmy Everyone loves art in one form or another, from music to writing, dance to drawing, garden design to poetry, acting and ... Continue reading
13 Dec Garden Design Peat free plants at Tissington Nursery, Peak District | Jack Wallington December 13, 2024 By jrfrybmy “People come to us specifically because we grow in peat free compost,” says Mairi Longdon, who runs Tissington Nursery i... Continue reading
11 Dec Garden Design 11 Things at Chelsea Flower Show 2023 | Jack Wallington December 11, 2024 By jrfrybmy It feels like the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has finally found its feet again after having the rug pulled from under it by ... Continue reading
07 Dec Garden Design The Farm, Yorkshire | Jack Wallington December 7, 2024 By jrfrybmy In February 2021 Chris and I found ourselves moving to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire where Chris grew up. We’d been pl... Continue reading