Painting your house to match your plants. #GranCanaria #santabrigida #colourmatching

Canarian roof “gardens” - the channels in the tiles & the terracotta itself hold just enough moisture for plants to grow in virtually nothing. #GranCanaria

Let’s talk about the roots… #GranCanaria #rootbound

After yesterday’s “roots” master class, today we move on to “grafting” and “pollarding”… #grancanaria #treesurgery

Top tip to grow aeoniums: 1. Push into tiny crack between wall and window frame. 2. Walk away. #aeonium #grancanaria #santabrigida #gardeningmadeeasy

More plants in the Canaries? No .. Penwith! Congratulations to @PenberthPlants and Minack - the new #GreatGarden of Cornwall! CornwallSpringStory

Is this the best coffee-with-a-view in Cornwall? Congratulations to everyone at Minack on the cafe renovation!

Really impressed by the gardens at The Newt in Somerset. Amazing attention to detail in the planting and the design. Three hundred varieties of British apples beautifully grown.

Extraordinarily precise planting and design at The Newt in Somerset. Fabulous.

West Cornwall Horticultural Society’s Spring Show in Marazion. The first show of the season. Caulis, camellias and cake. Splendid. And on again today.

Enormous thanks to everyone at Waterstones Truro for their continued support for #SecretGardensOfCornwall. Great to see copies in the window and on featured displays. A new season of discovering Cornwall’s amazing gardens is just beginning! X

Looking forward to meeting NGSCornwall owners at Trelissick with #SecretGardensOfCornwall tomorrow. National Trust South West #gardens #opengardens #gardensopenforcharity Visit Cornwall #cornishgardens

Great new exhibition by the fab #emmajeffryes at NewCraftsmanGallery in St Ives plus amazing wooden vessels by #AnthonyBryant.

Part of my reading list for Stratford Literary Festival. Great books and great authors as part of a terrific programme. Tix and info through their website.

Congratulations and thanks to all the organisers and exhibitors at this year’s Cornwall Garden Society #SpringFlowerShow. A huge success yesterday - with blue skies! - and more to come today!

Padstow May Day 1977 was - quite by the chance - the day I came to Cornwall so delighted to see #BarbaraSanti ‘s marvellous #KingForADay at Newlyn Filmhouse. Do see it if you can.

Fire at main venue is every Festival organisers worst nightmare. Our hearts go out to Annie and her team. If you have tickets for Stratford Literary Festival 1-5 May please go to this link and please support the festival in any way you can stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/new-festival-v…

Amazing work by Stratford Literary Festival team. Writing is resilient The Bookseller Val McDermid mary beard David Nicholls James O'Brien

With a packed audience at Stratford Literary Festival to talk to Patrick Grant about ethical fashion, #CommunityClothing and of course #SewingBee.

Thanks to everyone who’s followed me on my Twitter and latterly X account over the past few years but for fairly obvious reasons I won’t now be posting on this site. You’ll find me on Instagram for words and images of books, gardening, art and, of course, Cornwall. X