Di Bray Garden Design

Time seems to stand still sometimes, particularly when you're in the final year of your degree and finding it really hard going. You...

Finally, after 3 years of study, I got the news last autumn that I'd passed my MHort with the RHS. I was so relieved as, although I...

It's obvious to say and is being said often, but we really do need some rain.... and not a flood, just days and nights of gentle drizzle....

A lady we used to work for in Brize Norton, who was wise in the ways of the garden, would always say that as soon as the Blackthorn...

2022! So far January has been as it should be - a bit mild in parts but largely temps that you'd expect and no torrential rain or tile...

Sadly next door's shed caught fire at the end of August and I experienced a bit of collateral damage. Worst affected was the cold frame...

Found this chap outside the back door the other day; an Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar. I was very pleased to welcome it and this is the...

Well, I wasn't expecting this when I opened the curtains! I'm not sure the garden was either but then again, the nights have been pretty...

Another day in February 2021 with rain. It seems to have rained every day for at least 2 weeks. I'm sure that the garden is still...

Three years in the garden next month. When I think about the weather over those 3 years then I have to believe in climate change -...

Salvia have become a stalwart in the garden. They like the free draining soil and the planting in the garden is still young and so the...

One of the really good things about Lockdown and op' recuperation has been the opportunity to be in the garden more and at all stages...

Well, so far so good with the Echinacea purpurea seedlings and the Stipa arundinacea - they're not exactly romping away but they're...

Well, at the moment, the garden is growing well - helped very much by warmth and gentle rain. It is wonderful to have normal 'british'...

I made a lovely visit to Moor Wood House roses earlier in the month. They hold the National Collection of Rambler roses and everywhere...

Well, I may have been 'Locked Down' but, thanks to the garden, I've never felt 'Locked In'. Back surgery early this year has meant that...

I've never been sure about Amaryllis (or Hippeastrum as I should more correctly call them), and now I don't know why? They're incredible...

On a very hot day in the summer of 2018 (were there any cool days in the summer of 2018?) Di Bray Gardens (ie me and Ann!) went to...

They do say that you should never meet your heroes, well, in the form of a garden, I sort of met one of mine in the early spring of 2018....

9th July 2019 and a visit to see the roses at Mottisfont in Hampshire. It was informative and enjoyable - so many ideas regarding how...