by Janine Winlaw | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured Business, Features, Food and Drink, Home, Home and Garden, People, SE Magazines
There’s nothing more satisfying, tasty and healthy than picking and eating your own homegrown apples. And with pretty pink- tinged blossom in spring and glowing autumn fruit, an apple tree adds an attractive and romantic feel to a garden and is wonderful for wildlife...
by Around Dulwich | Oct 21, 2022 | Art, Features, Home, Home and Garden, People, SE Magazines
Get into dahlias Dahlias are back in fashion in a big way, sales are up and there are thousands of posts of these dramatic beauties on Instagram. Once only grown on the allotments or in a dahlia bed for flower shows and flower arranging, they’re now being used...
by Around Dulwich | Sep 14, 2022 | Events, Features, Home, Home and Garden, News, People, SE Magazines
The Joys of Ornamental Grasses Late summer is when many grasses come into their own, with golden seed heads shimmering and swaying in the breeze. They look great in big drifts, acting like a neutral foil to colourful late flowering perennials like echinacea,...
by Around Dulwich | Aug 17, 2022 | Featured Business, Features, Home, Home and Garden, SE Magazines
The genus is huge and varied and contains more than 700 species. Culinary sage, Salvia officinalis, is a useful herb but also looks good in the border, especially the purple variety. But there are thousands more salvias to choose from in a multitude of colours. Native...
by Janine Winlaw | Jul 20, 2022 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home and Garden, News, People, Photography, SE Magazines
Plants adapted to climate change With summers generally getting hotter, it makes sense to use plants in the garden that once established won’t need regular watering. Beth Chatto’s gravel garden and the RHS Hyde Hall’s dry garden, both in Essex, are fantastic...
by Around Dulwich | Jun 15, 2022 | Events, Featured Business, Home and Garden, Local News, People, SE Magazines, Uncategorized
Hedges create stylish boundaries but also help divide a garden into ‘rooms’, giving the space architectural structure. Hedge partitions also work well offset either side of a garden, create informal divisions, breaking up a long thin garden, for example, and creating...
