Words

Rare words and swear words, Good words and bad words. What are words worth?

(Tom-Tom Club “Wordy Rappinghood” 1982)

James enjoys writing and has written lots of stuff for most of the more reputable garden magazines over the years. The first article was in the Daily Express in about 1999 and it has been mostly upwards since then. He has had a regular column in Gardeners World magazine for the past fifteen years. He has also written features for  The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Garden, Country Life, House and Garden, The Garden Design Journal, Gardens Illustrated, and many others. His blog has been going since 2006 (the glory days of Blogs!). He won Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year 2019 and Blog of the Year in both 2009 and 2013.

This page has a selection of articles, columns and some of the, less scurrilous, stuff written about James as well as by him.