Changes
The garden to the east of the milking barn is now moving into its ninth autumn. Nine years of evolution and getting to know and becoming its own thing. The plant lists that I made in the first year to...
View ArticleEndings & Beginnings
This week has been a big week and one that has demanded a particular and focused attention. After almost 40 years in practice, 23 as Principal of Dan Pearson Studio, I have made the decision to close...
View ArticleSeptember Skies
The relief of September is with us. Soft days to contrast the tough summer of heat and weeks of unrelenting blue. Gentle rains, drizzle and grey skies and the fields beyond us flushing green again and...
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Pa amb tomàquet
Since we got the polytunnel in 2020, every August bank holiday has involved harvesting and processing as many of the tomatoes as we can, with friends invited down for the weekend to lend a hand. This...
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The Pond | Update 2026
The pond has provided such respite this summer. With a gravity all its own and a cool place of apparent calm and consistency. Descend the slopes into its orbit and the temperature drops as the smell...
View ArticlePeruvian Feather Grass
Five or six years ago, enough time for the Peruvian Feather Grass to scatter its offspring to the places it wants to be, I was given a solitary plant of Stipa pseudoichu (main image). It was gifted by...
View ArticleAnnual Review
Last week I spent a day at Sissinghurst for the annual visit in my godparenting role, where I provide another pair of eyes with the advantage of seeing things afresh as an outsider. The days consist...
View ArticleSkirret
Sium sisarum or skirret is an old-fashioned perennial root vegetable, cooked and eaten in a similar manner to salsify. Predating the potato it was prized in the time of the Tudors for its sweet,...
View ArticleLomelosia & Friends
In 2019, I made a memorable visit to Southern France to see Olivier Filippi’s nursery and Jardin Sec, to meet plants I hadn’t met before. I was researching the palette for the re-imagining of the...
View ArticleCalling Coolness
As I write, a cool breeze blows through the milking barn. The doors to either side are wide open, the dogs laid flat on the cool concrete floor. Outside, although it is just mid-morning, the sky is a...
View ArticleThe New Banks | Update
The bank above the track to the barn remained raw and unfinished whilst we were planting up the sand garden three years ago. Facing steeply down, steeper than any other slopes we are gardening here,...
View ArticleChilled Courgette & Nasturtium Soup
After a rather bumpy start the vegetable garden is finally producing. The dry spring saw successive germination failures. Cold and rain resulted in second sowings rotting in the ground or falling prey...
View ArticleHeatwave
I have felt for the garden this week in temperatures which feel uncomfortable and out of kilter. It reached 48 degrees Celsius in the polytunnel despite its cloak of shade netting and 37 out in the...
View ArticleIn the Meadows
We walk the meadows daily. The mown-in path on the Tump (main image) catching your eye from the garden so that you are drawn onward, first over the wet ditch and then, following the cut line in the...
View ArticleDelos at Sissinghurst | The Conclusion
Making a garden is often most satisfying for the taking of time to do it. In the case of Delos at Sissinghurst, this tenth garden enclosure was started by Vita and Harold after they had visited the...
View ArticleSweet Peas 2026
Every year we grow sweet peas and every year, when there are a hundred other things to do in spring, we ask ourselves if it is worth it. In late October, at sowing time, their summer charm feels...
View ArticleCistus
The rock roses sense the onset of summer. The first of a myriad flowers responding to the early warmth and the promise of more. Each papery flower lasts just a day with their golden boss of stamens...
View Article22 May 2026
The weather has been kind these last weeks of spring. Gentle rain and enough of it here to refresh the burgeoning in this crossover season. Spring to summer, the garden moving fast and demanding daily...
View ArticleOpportunists
The sand garden moves fast in this last fortnight of spring with the rise of the opportunists. The short-lived Mediterraneans are the protagonists of this fast awakening. Triggered by September rains,...
View ArticleMaytime
May demands a daily vigil as the surge continues. First iris blooming from spears that rose as fast as the asparagus and the peonies sounding across the garden. Just last week – and for a moment I...
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