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Sowing the Seeds of a Flowerery Garden

 Choosing which seeds to sow Seed sowing is one of the ultimate gardening pleasures. Tucking tiny brownish bundles of potential beauty beneath your potting soil is a lesson in hope and expectation. My Head Gardener, here at Northview Garden, Hanna von Schlegell, and I spend a lot of time thinking, and occasionally debating which flowers…

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Snowdrops and Galanthomania

 An Enchanting Winter Flower – Snowdrop – Galanthus Gardening Quote for February Snowdrops – ‘The more species and varieties you grow, the more you come to appreciate their finer details and differences, whereas those who are strangers to the subject think that all snowdrops are alike, even taking offense if is suggested that they are…

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Winter Gardening Book Reading Suggestions

 If you are like me, the active part of the gardening year is so busy that there is little time left at the end of the day to read all the books and magazines that I have on my pile. Consequently, the time for reading is winter, and then reading becomes one of my ultimate…

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The Leaves Come Tumbling Down – and Then What?

 A guide to managing your fallen autumn leaves ‘Autumn is not the sad time it is supposed to be. Darkness falls at five o’clock, and the garden is cold and wet, but it is a season of planning and expectation… Even the fallen leaf is food for future years of foliage and fruit, and promises…

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The Wild Garden

 Is there a trend in our gardens back to wildness? Does it parallel our more casual pandemic lifestyles? Learn about how a nineteenth century garden writer paved the way for our current wild gardens.

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