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Q and A with Barbara Segall on Secret Gardens of East Anglia
The September 2017 issue of The English Garden published a Q&A with Barbara Segall about her book Secret Gardens of East Anglia, co-authored with the photographer Marcus Harpur. The post Q and A...
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A taster of the book: 5 Secret gardens of East Anglia
I have shared a glimpse of five of the 22 gardens featured Secret Gardens of East Anglia in my post for Richard Jackson’s Garden website. They include Columbine Hall, Stowupland and Wood Farm, Gipping,...
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How we got from A to B: producing the text and images for Secret Gardens of...
I have lived in Suffolk, one of the counties of East Anglia, for over 30 years and love its wide horizons, cloudscapes and the way those who garden in this region create such interesting plots of...
View ArticleWednesday 6 December 2017: Hart’s Books, Saffron Walden
Wednesday 6 December 2017, 6.30pm Hart’s Books Slide show and book signing. Tickets £5.00, available over the phone on 01799 524 552 or in-store. Hart’s Books 26 King Street Saffron Walden CB10 1ES The...
View ArticleSunday 12 November 2017, 1pm: Book Launch and Afternoon Tea For Gardeners
Sunday 12 November 2017, 1-4.30pm Book Launch and Afternoon Tea For Gardeners Blackbrook Longhorns Gallery, near Coalville, Leicestershire Barbara Segall will be talking about her book Secret Gardens...
View ArticleSaturday 11 November 2017, 10.30am: Suffolk Gardens Trust Winter Programme
Saturday 11 November 2017, 10.30-11am Suffolk Gardens Trust Winter Programme Barbara Segall will be talking about Secret Gardens of East Anglia. More details: juliejohn_scott@yahoo.co.uk Ipswich &...
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Wednesday 8 November 2017, 11am: Christmas at Blackthorpe Barn: Gardening Talks
Wednesday 8 November 2017, 11am-12noon Christmas at Blackthorpe Barn: Gardening Talks Meet the author and buy a signed copy. Book online: www.blackthorpebarn.com Blackthorpe Barn Rougham Suffolk IP30...
View ArticleSaturday 4 November 2017: East Anglian Garden Group
Saturday 4 November 2017 East Anglian Garden Group Details TBA The post Saturday 4 November 2017: East Anglian Garden Group appeared first on The Garden Post.
View ArticleThursday 2 November 2017, lunchtime: Suffolk Agricultural Association...
Thursday 2 November 2017, lunchtime Suffolk Agricultural Association Gardening Conference 2017: A Celebration of English Gardens Barbara Segall will be selling books and signing pre-conference and...
View ArticleThursday 26 October 2017: Gainsborough’s House Museum
Thursday 26 October 2017, 6-8pm Gainsborough’s House Museum Barbara Segall: Meet the Author Gainsborough’s House Museum 46 Gainsborough Street Sudbury CO10 2EU The post Thursday 26 October 2017:...
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A herb a day in December (Part 1)
I started my herb Advent notes on 1 December when I realised that 25 years had passed since my beloved friend and husband Peter Way died. I couldn’t really believe that those years had gone by – it...
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A herb a day in December (Part 2)
Concluding my tour of herbs in December… Birch in autumn Birch in winter Herb 18 is another tree, the birch. My neighbour’s birch tree gives me huge pleasure in every season. In spring as it leafs up,...
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Racing to Ascot
I am looking forward to a little flutter at the Races… Racing to Ascot? Racing at Ascot? No, change that to sprinting to the starting line for the Ascot Spring Garden Show and you will realise that in...
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Suffolk artist and three exhibitions: Sir Cedric Morris (1889-1982)
When I arrived in Suffolk and began visiting gardens and meeting local horticultural legends including the then Country Life garden editor Tony Venison, Frances Mount (one of Cedric Morris’s garden...
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Woottens then and now
In 1994 I was asked by the editor of the Royal Horticultural Society’s magazine, The Garden, to write about a new nursery in Suffolk: Woottens of Wenhaston. It was owned by Michael Loftus (who died in...
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First-time flinger in Austin Texas
There is a first time for everything and this was a triple first for me: I was a first-time flinger at the Garden Bloggers Fling Austin 2018 (#gbfling2018); it was my first visit to Texas, the lone...
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Celebrating Humphry Repton in 2018
It is Repton 200 this year – the bi-centenary of Humphry Repton’s death in 1818. Repton, recognised as the first person to coin and then use the title ‘landscape gardener’, produced 400 or more designs...
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Peas & Love at Chelsea
Many of you know that I while I do enjoy a G&T on a hot summer’s day, I am also a devotee of a non-alcoholic spirit called Seedlip Garden made from distilled peas and other wonderful botanicals. So...
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Weaving formal with floral: a profile of Orchard House, Sudbury for ‘The...
A small street profile belies the size of the garden – and meadow – behind Orchard House in Sudbury, Suffolk, and the challenges the sloping site posed for its owners. Barbara Segall explores a...
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Show time in July… and the new one is the first Belvoir Flower & Garden Festival
It is flower show season… it’s July and there are the wonderful established shows such as RHS Hampton Court Flower Show (which starts next week 3–8 July) and RHS Tatton Park Flower Show (18-22 July)....
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