Beth Chatto

  • Gardens with staying power

    Following on from our recent look at creating gardens for the future, a drought-resilient garden doesn’t happen by accident. Three very different gardens spring to mind when considering how we can build gardens that are better prepared for what lies ahead. Each demonstrates how thoughtful design, the right soil conditions and carefully chosen planting can…

  • Running dry

    With drought conditions threatening the typical English garden, do we need to rethink our planting plans for 2023? From an article by Tim Sykes written in the So Magazine, September 2022 It’s a scary thought looking at that beautiful garden of ours, in the full knowledge that not all our plants will have survived the…