The couple scraping by on less than £9000 a year each who are losing the £200 winter fuel payment they relied on to help pay their fuel bill bit.ly/3yyKwNM Chancellor says it was a tough decision. Not as tough as the ones they will have to make!

Today! Sat Aug 10th. £4 on the door, children free. Wouldn’t you like a look round? 👀

Visit an allotment or GYO garden this year National Garden Scheme has diverse 'grow your own' gardens, including professionally tended ones like Fittleworth House and Goldstone Hall Gardens, and community gardens and allotments showing social cohesion. ngs.org.uk/get-a-taste-fo…

NEW #PODCAST EPISODE: Is #August your least favourite #gardening month, well it might be mine, controversial I know - so @HeadGardenerLC and I discuss, plus trimming your dangly bits and putting pen to paper for some #garden writing Listen in: talkingheadspodcast.co.uk/763457/15560712

It's not recognized enough just how big of a spineless wimp Elon Musk truly is. While in the past, Trump has berated Musk repeatedly, Musk has always acted like a lap dog while in his presence. I expect the same obsequious brownnosing from Musk tonight. #TrumpOnX #TwitterBlackout

The deliciously delightful Dahlia ‘Peaches’ to wish you all a peachy new week! #MondayMotivation #DailyDahlia

💗 The blooms of this gorgeous hydrangea change colour from white to pink as they mature - the plant goes by the fabulous name of Hydrangea paniculata 'Pinky Winky' (Dvpinky)

** Tuesday Sep 10th, 2 - 5pm ** THE GARDEN MUSEUM 🏫 5 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7LB LAMBETH Tours with Head Gardener at 3 + 4pm. Adm: £7, children free - Covers access to museum and garden. Come for a glimpse into the uniquely British love affair with gardens.

It is quite pungent in the bulb tunnel once the aroids start flowering. This is Biarum tenuifolium subsp. abbreviatum MDM01001, from Mt Pantokrator in Corfu. #fairviewyearround

I'm sorry, but how the f*ck can Keir Starmer justify taxing farmers out of business to raise £500m, while giving £500m to foreign farmers? Keir Starmer has no right to stand in front of our nation's flag. He's destroying this country. I despise him and this vile Labour party.

If you're having one of those days when only baby goats in pyjamas can help, here's some baby goats in pyjamas.

English Galanthophiles visited a very special garden in Blessington this afternoon... Thank you very much, Jimi. #snowdrops

🤷‍♂️| If anyone in Kirkliston is missing a trampoline, we've got it.

Many people saying "its the interest rates that are the killer" actually thats not true. These new Plan 5 loans interest is set at the rate of inflation, that seems good but it distracted from the killer changes to this cohort of students... 1. The repayment threshold was

Thank you so much for all the messages around my post about Hinton Ampner..it is a fascinating and beautifully maintained significant garden and I highly recommend..here are a few more photos as requested.. yes..I am really getting through my Garden List 2025..

While researching Thomas Mawson years ago..I became The Chairman of The Friends of Dyffryn..a role I am proud of.During this research at The RHS Library I was asked to verify a few paintings by Edith Adie discovered in the E.A.Bowles collection..they are now in the garden..

My early morning walk around my garden was very pleasant this morning as it is noticeably cooler…but the roses are having a second wave of flowering…

So many ways of viewing gardens in England..a particular favourite is when a whole village opens up a ‘Garden Trail’..always fascinating to see the sheer variety of gardens we gardeners create! Here is the Fittleworth Garden Trail in West Sussex earlier this year..

I keep being asked about Hestercombe Gardens…the Gardens Trust has entered into administration but The Gardens remain open for the time being…please go along and visit one of our great 18th and 20th Century gardens..one of Lutyens finest I think that is open to the public..

A much needed reset! A return to ‘factory settings’ before a very hectic week…sometimes you just need to remove all the ‘clutter’ of life…and a private pool on a very private estate could not be more perfect..I will be a while…