James Hitchmough

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Wildflower meadow at the National Botanic Gardens. The gardens reopened to the public on May 18th having been closed since March 28th. You can once again stroll along the heavily scented paths and meadows in the 50 acres of heaven in Glasnevin. Photograph: Fran Veale
Bloom to Zoom: garden fest is online with chats and tips

The pandemic has upturned this year’s gardening calendar, forcing the cancellation of festivals, talks, plant fairs, workshops and other green-fingere(...)

Sarah Price’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 garden. Photograph: Clare Takacs
A Chelsea winner's guide to creating a tranquil garden

Subtle, thoughtful and planet-friendly, there is a delicacy and intelligence to the work of the British garden designer Sarah Price – one of the key s(...)

Wild-flower meadow. Photograph: Moment/Getty
Go wild in the garden and make a meadow

Ask a group of gardeners what picture is conjured up in their mind’s eye when you say the word “meadow” and their answers will be surprisingly diverse(...)

Grow: pretty as a picture

I’m having a ‘meadow’ moment. Actually, not so much a moment as a sustained yen for my very own ‘pictorial meadow’ – the term first coined by profe(...)

Great Dixter, East Sussex; August 2012, from The New English Garden, by Tim Richardson. Photograph: Andrew Lawson
Grounds to note

I’ve ordered myself a notebook. Not any old notebook, mind you, but a proper, grown-up Moleskine notebook of the kind once beloved of the late travel (...)