Anne Wareham

Anne Wareham is The Bad Tempered Gardener - from her book of that title, recently published by Frances Lincoln. Over the last 25 years she has designed and made the widely acclaimed four acre garden at Veddw (veddw.com) on the Welsh border with her garden photographer husband, Charles Hawes. She also edits the website thinkingardens.co.uk and appeared as a judge on ‘I've Got Britain's Best Garden' on Channel Five.

Anne is generally known for being a pain in the neck to the rest of the garden world, for saying all the things people think but never say about gardens and the garden media.

ANNE'S FAVOURITE SITES

Peter Nyssen - This is not a pretty website, though it does eventually offer you pictures of the bulbs and plants in flower. But this is the good garden maker's dream - affordable plants and bulbs for massing. They are happy to supply amateurs at wholesale prices. I filled our two acre garden with bulbs from Peter Nyssen.

Crocus - Excellent for plants - fast, trouble free service of a wide variety. Good, stylish website with blogs for a bonus and to keep you coming. They are on top of the game and supply plants to Chelsea gardens. The website is currently offering the plants from several of the show gardens as collections - good thinking.

Black Pitts - James Alexander-Sinclair does get everywhere, but he also offers light relief and general wittiness to a terribly earnest and moralising garden world. We need him and his blogs are always good value.

Federal Twist - Another, more weighty James,(James Golden) blogging from America. An unusually intelligent, thoughtful approach to garden making and well worth a regular visit.

Etsy - This gardener dons wellies as rarely as possible and does not live obsessed by gardening. So here's a tribute to a great site which must have wrought miracles for crafts people - and certainly has for their clients. Want something unique, good or to your own design? You will probably find someone here to help.

25 May 2011