Ramblings

Just back from the Garden Writers' Guild awards, where for a few hours I was able to mix with the glitterati of the gardening universe. This event really is an awfully big bash with not a sign of old wellingtons, boots or trowels in sight.

I was pleased that the dynamic Matthew Wilson won the Practical Book of the Year award for his RHS New Gardening and the Daily Telegraph Newspaper of the Year. The Telegraph is one gardening section I really do enjoy, so well done to them.

Matthew could be set to become 'trowel heart-throb' of the year - the curator of the RHS Garden at Harlow Carr in Yorkshire, he has certainly inspired with his input into the new BBC 2 Series on the RHS.

You may be interested in some blogs which I have come across recently. thewalledgardenblog.blogspot.com is by Susie White, who runs Chesters Walled Garden. She has written several gardening books and so her blogspot is informative and really interesting.
If you like the Highlands then you may be interested in another blog 'rural ramblings' from the Scottish Highlands. It is a working gardener's musings on life and gardening in 2007 - find it on
http://ramblingbloke.livejournal.com

For tonight my mind will be on other things - gardens put away and football boots to the fore. I will be rooting for Scotland in the big game against Italy, so after this blog will be putting my seed catalogue on the back burner for a few hours.

The next few days promises to be wet so perhaps not much will get done in the nation's gardens, so if you can't get out, why not log onto the blogs above and enjoy.