It's Time For A Shake-up!

Blow Brexit, blow waiting for the weather to improve – the New Year will be a time for action

Gardens are little influenced by festivals and festivities. They carry on regardless of what their keepers may be doing, or not doing. This year my garden has had little help. There have been lots of days away from home filming for Gardeners’ World and the gamut of flower shows, and on top of that for two new Channel 5 gardening shows, one a garden design competition and the other a more leisurely affair where we go to visit four outstanding gardens in each season of the year. Our final filming days for the winter episodes will be in early February. Nobody is quite sure when these programmes will be transmitted but we’ll let you know as soon as we can!

Gardens, like life, don’t stand still. Everything changes – either getting better or deteriorating. Having been in this garden for more than 40 years now there are going to have to be some major changes.