The English Garden

A Sense of PLACE

When visiting Peter Clay’s garden at Brockhampton Cottage in Herefordshire, it is shamefully easy to march straight past the luxuriant flower gardening in order to admire the view. For this, plainly, is a garden that belongs to its landscape. And this is how the story begins.

Peter Clay is Mr ‘Crocus’. He helped to set up the firm of that name at the turn of the millennium, and today it is a company that’s familiar to gardeners everywhere: the first-stop online finder and supplier of plants. And Crocus came about because of this garden.

Peter spent long stretches

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