Big Love* from the Davies Alpine House at Kew

A happy half an hour in the Davies Alpine House in Kew Gardens this afternoon. I had thought the selection of plants at Wisley - and their presentation in the traditional Alpine House with raised benches and terracotta pots sunk into sand - was my favourite display but then here we are at Kew, with…

RHS Wisley – Tales from the Plant Centre

Spring is arriving at the Plant Centre at RHS Wisley - always packed full of  irresistible plants , I regularly spend half as much time wandering from bench to bench as I do in the Gardens themselves. The range of trees, herbaceous plants, grasses, shrubs, climbers, roses, conifers, specimen plants, fruit trees, bulbs (but not…