Author: Tessa Parikian

September is one of my favourite months of the year. It comes a very close second to May. May with all its thrusting promise, fresh growth dragged skyward by the ever lengthening days. Spring flowers in full bloom spangling the garden, a mad energy that grips you in its embrace. September is a different thing… Continue reading September

We are nearly half way through the year. June has been quintessential. Warm, sunny days, long evenings and, for us, squadrons of swifts screaming across the big open skies taking advantage of the insect buffet that has been particularly varied and fulsome if the insects at ground level are anything to go by. The garden… Continue reading Flaming June

I planted lots of tulip bulbs in the autumn. I was buying some for a clients garden and decided to get some for my own. I have planted them before and low and behold over a few years they disappear not liking the cold, claggy London clay I plant them into. Received wisdom is that… Continue reading Tulips from Amsterdam

I don’t like hoovering. Or for that matter ironing. But some people really enjoy doing these things. They find them satisfying and meditative. I feel like that about gardening. Having a garden for me is about the ritual. It’s difficult to know which point of the year to choose as the start of it. Is… Continue reading To maintain or not to maintain? That is the question