Adriatic Gardens

13 Jan 202213 Jan 2022

I'm watching - and loving - Monty Don's latest gardening/history/travelogue programmes about gardens around the Adriatic. His series are always a delight; many garden programmes focus, not unexpectedly, on the…

Friday Five – garden mysteries

8 Sep 20178 Sep 2017

I'm a sucker for any kind of mystery and I love gardens and gardening, so it stands to reason I would seek out books with a bit of both.  I've…

‘The Whaleboat House’ by Mark Mills

2 Nov 2008

I read Mills' 'The Savage Garden' last year and thoroughly enjoyed it (a garden *and* a mystery - what's not to like *g*) so when I saw another title by…