Gold Medal Gardens – North America
As the “Golden Games” draw to a close there is a sense of great pride and celebration in the UK. We have diving and the 5,000 metres to look forward to tonight, so perhaps Team GB has time for a...
View ArticleGold Medal Gardens – Southern Hemisphere
Visitors to the Olympic park via the bustling Stratford entrance were for two weeks greeted by the showiest of the London 2012 gardens, representing the Southern Hemisphere. To my mind these were...
View ArticleChelsea 2013: East Village Garden Snapshot
I suspected it may be among my favourite show gardens, and it is. Not least because, unlike some of its peers, most of the flowers are in full bloom in spite of the chill weather. Designed by Michael...
View ArticleRemembering London 2012
This time last year I was already in the Olympic stadium, watching the warm up for the opening ceremony. Unlike today, the skies were a brooding grey, shedding the odd few spots of rain. The world...
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