The fine silvery blues of Artemisia abrotanum @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B7BflbJAS1W/…

Tender plants wrapped up against the cold in the Chelsea Physic Garden today. A glorious sunny day at The English Gardening School @ Chelsea Physic Garden instagram.com/p/B7la-fjgKv8/…

The scented, fluffy white heads of Eupatorium ligustrinum @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B7qq4J2gItW/…

The rose-red flowers of Achillea millefolium ‘Red Velvet’ currently adding colour to our sales tunnel displays 🌼🌸🌿 @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B8qN4cNgLBJ/…

Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ displaying it’s clusters of scented, white-pink flowers 🌸 @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B8_0egug2HD/…

Glossy young foliage of Symphytum ibericum 🌱☘️ @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B9o5gMuAr_0/…

Our first Fritillaries in flower today 🌸 @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B92OOJ9nlzA/…

Staphylea holocarpa Rosea, one of my most favourite shrubs @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B941cTagV62/…

The deep pink buds of Viburnum tinus ’Ladybird’ in this early spring sun ☀️ @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B-KfF1-gk_T/…

Must keep the bees well fed as they are waking up. Will be glad if the honey later 🐝 @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/B-VBSTmgtAz/…

A fresh and frosty morning on the nursery ❄️ @ Roger Platts Garden Design & Nurseries instagram.com/p/B-9rSq2gV58/…

Spring fragrance of Tulipa ‘Turkestanica’. What a beautiful sight! 🌼 @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/B_fzHpbAFGD/…

Vinca minor ‘La Grave’ flowing through areas of the garden with its blue-purple flowers... @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/B_2APbrgv1-/…

Staphylea colchica, in flower since the start of lockdown @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/CAAhcZogFX6/…

I’ve often thought of returning to sit in my 2010 Chelsea M&G Garden never imagining the strange and sad circumstance that would contrive for it to be shared again by the BBC in The People’s Choice of the Decade to… instagram.com/p/CAP8s68gOZw/…

Thinking of all the designers, contractors and sponsors, the friendly faces at the car park, the lovely black Labrador sniffer dogs and everyone that won’t be at the Royal Hospital grounds next week. @ RHS Chelsea… instagram.com/p/CAQk1zSg0M8/…

Thrilled that my 2010 Chelsea M&G Garden will be on show again, aired tonight on BBC 1. Vote tomorrow for The People’s Choice of the Decade, Thank you BBC and @the_rhs @ RHS Chelsea Flower Show SW1 instagram.com/p/CASWrtxAeiT/…

Viburnum x burkwoodii flooding pathways in the garden with its wonderful scent @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/CAfw-50AxN4/…

Dahlia ‘Burlesca’ with its marvellous, coral coloured pompom blooms @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/CCL0826ABcU/…

Cistus x dansereaui ‘Decumbens’ with its sensational bright summer flowers @ Edenbridge instagram.com/p/CCdR0WUAbVA/…