by Sara Gregson | Jun 23, 2018 | Gardening & Environment
I was kindly invited to the Woburn Abbey Garden Show and was enchanted. There was such a mixture of gardening styles to wander around, from rolling parkland with grazing deer, close cut lawns, formal parterres, frothy borders, truly magnificent trees, patches of...
by Sara Gregson | Apr 18, 2018 | Gardening & Environment
Every day I walk our dogs through the water meadows alongside the River Cam. Every day I see how the grasses and wildflowers are growing in fields that have been returned to pasture for the past 20 years. They are a wild-life haven and home to cattle in the...
by Sara Gregson | Aug 21, 2017 | Gardening & Environment
Last week I went on a truly amazing High Summer Garden Tour to West Sussex, designed and delivered by garden lover and specialist Sarah Raven and her colleague Melanie… First stop was the Sussex Prairie Garden at Henfield – Paul and Pauline McBride’s eight-acre plot...
by Sara Gregson | Jul 6, 2017 | Farming & Food
Groundswell is an innovative, farmer-led annual event that showcases farming practices that promote soil health, for example by not ploughing and the introduction of mob-grazed cattle. Hundreds of farmers attended the inaugural ‘No Till’ Groundswell day, organised by...
by Sara Gregson | Jun 3, 2017 | Gardening & Environment
I just happened to be in Herefordshire the weekend garden writer Dr Noel Kingsbury and Jo Elliot opened their garden and grass meadows for the National Garden Scheme, and what an unexpected delight it was! The garden explores the borders between the wild and the...
