Where to start. The garden here at Lambley is looking as beautiful as it has ever looked. The ‘Honorine Jobert’ Japanese windflowers are at their heart-stopping best. Hundreds, if not thousands of single white flowers, swaying with every breath of wind on 120cm tall wiry stems. Last year a ninety-year-old customer, gazing at this garden, turned to me and sa...

Just about all of the tree peonies in my garden were gifts. Some 36 years ago, Criss and I had no sooner moved to Burnside Farm in Ascot, which became Lambley Nursery, when a local farmer brought a large, healthy plant of Peaonia ‘Ettienne de France’ as a welcome-to-the-district gift. Reg Kinnersley had worked on the property when he was a boy and ...