I like to think of the garden table as a stage: something to be dressed, designed and decorated, a small pleasure that’s easily achieved and easily changed with the seasons. A place for reminders of what’s coming soon, what’s flowering now, and what’s usually at our feet rather than at eye level. If your garden is getting out of hand and you can’t see the wood for the trees, your table top may be the perfect place to start.

Making the most of the late spring sunshine, we enjoyed flowers, fun, tea and cakes while raising money for Horatio’s Garden at our Garden Gathering.

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A Garden Tour to accompany our Garden Gathering in aid of Horatio’s Garden. A wonderful opportunity to bring friends together to raise money for a great cause that nurtures the wellbeing of people after spinal injury in beautiful, vibrant sanctuaries within the heart of NHS spinal injury centres. It’s also a chance to have some fun, some tea and cakes and share how my own garden nurtures me.

It’s the perfect weekend for some romantic snowdrop spotting: the countryside is carpeted in small, elegant, Giselle white snowdrops which are the first signs the season is turning and spring will come. Whether you seek the expansive and breathtaking or the rare and ravishing, now is the moment to hunt down snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) in the wild or the glorious gardens of galanthophiles to enjoy their sheer beauty and fragility.