Last night found me giving one of my Gardening Talks at Brompton-by-Sawdon Gardening Club, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire. This is was my second visit to this very friendly gardening club, who found me through the RHS Speakers List. Last time was Perfect Plants for Problem Places, and this time it was one of my my…
It was wonderful to be invited back to Royston Gardening Cub in South Yorkshire for the third time yesterday. This small Club meets at Royston Methodist Church on a Wednesday afternoon. This time the talk was, The way we were. I think it can be said that a good time was had by all.
Yesterday was spent out with my camera in the beautiful walled garden at Floors Castle I was rather pleased with the results, what do you think? The Camassia were looking wonderful. Doug Stewart
Speakers to clubs and societies have to be able to lay their hands on stunning slides to let people see their gardens in a new light. So I was overwhelmed when I saw these wonderful images on PetaPixel.com. I love the dorse, which I assume is the name for a duck/horse! Doug
As a gardening speaker I am often asked to talk about wildlife, and have a talk, Snuffles and Tweets which covers the basics of creating havens for wildlife in the Garden. However it is one thing being a speaker at a gardening club, and another to be part of a team creating a wildlife garden.…
What a fantastic morning, warm sun beating down from a blue sky, the Yorkshire Wolds as a backdrop and around 60 Scarecrows to be judged in the Wetwang Scarecrow Festival. The judging process was thoroughly enjoyable, and no one mistook this judge for one of the scarecrows! (http://www.wetwangscarecrows.co.uk)
On a beautiful early summers evening I thoroughly enjoyed the drive across the Wolds to give Gardening Talk in North Yorkshire at Welburn & District Horticultural Society on the Joy of Worms. Interestingly this is the second time I have given this talk at Welburn. Apparently they enjoyed it so much the first time that…
I have been spending the last few days working with some leading nurseries and garden centres photographing their new season plants and was delighted with the way this image came out… Even the humble Marigold can look wonderful in sunshine…
Well, actually the talk I was invited to give at the AGM of the Friends of Lincolnshire Museums was one of my most popular new gardening talks, “The Way We Were” which was made all the more special when the venue was the wonderful Normanby Hall with its Victorian Walled Garden
I had the great pleasure of giving a gardening talk on the Great Plant Hunters at the Riseholme & District Horticultural Society last week. It was their Golden Jubilee year, and to make it special they had invited back their 5 favourite speakers of all time. To say I was honoured to be one of…