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Your Garden In November
I must apologise for being a little quiet of late. I haven’t disappeared; I’ve simply been getting Dan Cooper Garden in good shape for the festive season. If you are hungry for more, you’ll find...
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Your Garden In October
October can be glorious or ghastly, depending on how the weather gods are feeling. I recall travelling to Delhi in October 2011 and the weather being hotter in Kent than in India – it was almost 30ºC...
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Your Garden In September
I’ve come to love September almost as much as May. It’s a month of gentle transition, bidding farewell to summer and ushering in autumn. September is famously soft, rich and characterful, like a fine...
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Surviving The Long, Hot Summer
Once again, dear friends, my attempts at posting more frequently have been thwarted: not this time by work, but by the sheer volume of watering we’ve had to do to keep the garden and allotment...
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Your Garden In August
As I sit down to write this post I find that August surfaces mixed emotions. On one hand, our garden is coming into its own: there’s the thrill and anticipation of the summer holidays, the promise of...
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All Hail The Tromboncino!
I think it’s high time I got back to writing some shorter, spur-of-the-moment posts, so, here goes! You’ve all heard of courgettes aka zucchini, right? But how about tromboncino aka zucchetta? Perhaps...
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Catching Up
It has been an embarrassingly long time long since I posted an update on our garden and allotment. Fear not, everything is coming up roses. Like you, we’ve been adjusting to this crazy, post-pandemic...
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Your Garden In July
With July comes the start of summer proper. All hints of spring – the tender green foliage, untidy daffodil leaves and fleeting, fragile blossom – are now gone, replaced by stronger, brighter colours...
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Waddesdon Manor – The Rothschild’s Fairytale Castle
There was a time when the Rothschild family owned so much land in Buckinghamshire that the county was cheekily referred to as ‘Rothschildshire’. At the height of their fortune, the family owned seven...
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How To Enjoy Your Garden In June
Would it be fair to say that June is the most quintessentially English month? I think so. June is when our world-famous cottage gardens look their most ebullient, brimming with cornflowers,...
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How To Enjoy Your Garden in May
May, Oh My! How rich and luxuriant you are. I want to bathe in your greenness, shower beneath your blossom and dream in your flowery meadows. If you’ve not already caught on, May is by far my...
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Time Out At Trengwainton
How time flies! I was just contemplating whether or not it was too soon to write another post about one of my favourite Cornish gardens when I realised that almost eight years have elapsed since I...
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How To Enjoy Your Garden In April
April is one of the most joyful and uplifting months in the garden. Days are longer, temperatures are increasing steadily and it finally feels as if the year is gaining momentum. Even when April...
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How to Grow Dahlias – A Simple Guide
The Frustrated Gardener is very much a team effort. Whilst it’s usually me pounding the keyboard, from time to time my partner John, otherwise know as The Beau, contributes a post. Dahlias are his...
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How to Enjoy Your Garden in March
Although winter’s icy fingers cling to March, their grip weakens daily. The weather may not always be clement, but there’s no turning back now; the advance of spring is unstoppable. What I love most...
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Jewels of the Winter Garden – 20 Indispensable Plants for Winter Colour and...
Gardens in winter have so much to offer. Designers often wax lyrical about the delights of ‘structure’, by which they mean woody plants, particularly evergreens, that reveal their shape and volume...
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Here Comes Summer!
The title of of this post is tongue-in-cheek given I’m sat at my desk with rain pattering on the skylight and a brisk draught whipping around my ankles. Three weeks of ‘too-good-to-be-true’ weather...
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A Change of Landscape
I always imagined that if I were made redundant from my job there would be one hundred and one things I’d rather do than retailing. At school my careers advisor suggested that I should study to be a...
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Our Top 10 Dahlias of 2021
As the dahlia season draws to a close, it’s time to celebrate those that dazzled during this uniquely cool and wet year. We ended the last growing season by lifting all of our tubers from our...
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Creating An Autumn Pumpkin Arrangement
It’s mid-October. The nights are drawing in and Halloween is fast approaching. Farmers here in East Kent are already opening their field gates for local folk to go and pick their own pumpkins....
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