Carpeting your Woodland Floor

Ever been faced with a shady spot in the garden and don’t know what to plant? Or have the plants you’ve installed in such a spot refused to thrive? 

Carpeting your Woodland Floor has been written to solve those problems in the smaller gardens of today. It describes a wide variety of hardy woodland and shade loving perennials, bulbs and ferns to provide colour and interest throughout the year in even the smallest of plots. Coloured leaves and variegated plants – ideal for brightening the darkness - have a chapter to themselves, while the lush elegance of ferns is described in full. Smaller, carpeting and clump forming plants to fill the nooks and crannies of the smaller shade garden are also detailed. In all, over 600 different plants are described and evaluated for beauty and utility.

The book is in three parts. The first section describes the plants by flowering or interest sequence to take the shade gardener through the unfolding year. The second section looks at the practical aspects of growing in the shade, planting, dealing with dry and wet shade, and coping with different soils. The third section is an A-Z listing with details of height and spread (in both inches and cms), flowering times and colours, shade tolerance, hardiness and foliage permanence for all the plants described in the book.

Now available for the Kindle (direct links below).  

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A Year at The Garden House

For the 2025 80th birthday celebration year at The Garden House I put together a presentation using my images and writing descriptive text to cover the year month by month.  I've now converted this into a 122 page PDF with hundreds of my images and accompanying text to provide a comprehensive overview of the features and development of the garden as the seasons progress.  From our snowdrop festival days from January into early March, to the glories of the spring garden.  From the bright flowering of summer days to superb autumn colour, and including the garden wildlife, the sequence provides a visual and narrative history of the 10 acre garden.

This is now offered as a free download from my Google Drive.