Continuing his seasonal series, Dan Pearson takes a moment to appreciate the beauty of spring on his Somerset smallholding, before the growing season really takes off
When Libby Russell moved to Batcombe House, Somerset, it was the countryside with which she fell in love. Over the past 17 years, she has taken cues from that landscape to create a garden that is entirely at home in its setting. Natasha Goodfellow reports. with photographs by Eva Nemeth.
Libby Russell has spent 15 years developing her own Somerset garden, unifying two distinct halves within a valley, filling it with year-round colour and cultivating a sense of comfort and joy.
In the first of a four-part seasonal series, Dan Pearson describes how he and his partner Huw Morgan have nurtured the land on their Somerset smallholding.
Whether you're green-fingered, or can't tell your perennials from your perineum, these Somerset gardens will have you clamouring to ogle...
In the first of a four-part seasonal series, Dan Pearson describes how he and his partner Huw Morgan have nurtured the land on their Somerset smallholding.
In an extract from 'Planting the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset', we get a glimpse of the garden at one of the best moments of the year, autumn.
Completing his series, Dan Pearson admires the effects of the season’s bounty on his Somerset smallholding – from the productivity of the kitchen garden and orchard to the beauty of the hay meadow
Stephen Lacey explores a plantsman’s paradise in the shadow of Wells Cathedral before the gates open for the first Bishop’s Palace Garden Festival
When Libby Russell moved to Batcombe House, Somerset, it was the countryside with which she fell in love. Over the past 17 years, she has taken cues from that landscape to create a garden that is entirely at home in its setting. Natasha Goodfellow reports. with photographs by Eva Nemeth.
For garden designer Alison Jenkins, our green spaces should be beautiful, fruitful and sustainable, and her Somerset smallholding is the perfect example, with abundant beds of vegetables, herbs and edible flowers.
In an extract from 'Planting the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset', we get a glimpse of the garden at one of the best moments of the year, autumn.
