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Caroline Broome

Caroline Broome

Caroline Broome has been gardening for more than 30 years, and professionally for nearly ten years. Having passed the RHS General Certificate, she has since developed her East Finchley garden into a "personal paradise" that she and her husband David invite the public to visit each year for charity. Her picturesque garden won the Best Small Back Garden Trophy in the London Gardens Society Awards three years running and has been featured on BBC1's The One Show and ITV's Love Your Garden.

Caroline was an Assistant County Organiser for the National Garden Scheme from 2012 until 2020 whereupon she took up the position of Chair of Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society. She also sits on the committee of the London Gardens Society. She writes for the country's most popular weekly gardening magazine Garden News, as well as her local paper, Suburb News. Caroline also trials plants for mail order company Thompson and Morgan.

Caroline describes herself as the plantsperson, always experimenting with unusual perennial planting combinations, and her husband David as creative genius behind all their humorous and quirky garden ornaments and water features! They have transformed their terrace into a plant packed Catio for their six cats to enjoy the outdoors, whilst safely enclosed within a mesh covered patio, allowing the birds and wildlife the freedom of the garden beyond. Always on the lookout for new projects, they created a prairie themed roof deck above the Beach Hut summerhouse, and an exotic front garden with ornamental grasses adorning hanging buckets and a mini living wall.

Articles & News by Caroline Broome

News

7th September 2020Hampstead Garden Suburb Virtual Autumn Flower Show - growing in popularity!
After its first Virtual Flower Show in June, the HGSHS decided the only way to see if an Autumn Show would be more popular was to try it!
29th August 2020The Bigger and Better Autumn Virtual Flower Show.
Following the success of the first HGSHS Virtual Flower Show back in June they have launched the Bigger and Better Autumn Virtual Flower Show...
20th June 2020Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society First Virtual Summer Flower Show.
Due to the Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society not being able to hold its Summer Flower Show this June, it held a virtual one instead.
31st May 2020Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society Launches its First Virtual Summer Flower Show
The Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society is experimenting with its first Virtual Summer Flower Show this June.

Articles

8th July 2021A Warning, Oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea)
The oak processionary moth is a species of moth which feeds and lives almost exclusively on oak trees. The hairs on these caterpillars can cause itchy rashes, eye, and throat irritations.

Columnists

26th November 2023Everything you never thought you'd know about Hellebores
In this month's column Caroline writes about Hellebores...
30th October 2023Everything you never thought you'd know about Poppies
In this month's column Caroline writes about Poppies...
26th August 2023Who knows what The Lily of the Valley has in common with Foxgloves?
In this month's column Caroline writes about Lily of the Valley...
18th July 2023Everything you never thought you'd know about foxgloves
In this month's column Caroline writes about Foxgloves...
29th May 2023A New Favourite Garden.
In this month's column Caroline writes about her new favourite garden.
17th February 2023There's a Spring in my Step
In this month's column Caroline has been thinking about the change of seasons...
19th December 2022Frolics with the Felines of Church Lane
In her Christmas column Caroline writes about the other passion that rules her household...
9th November 2022Gardening is Not for Wimps
In this month's column Caroline reflects on gardening in the Autumn & Winter...
11th September 2022Drought Resistant Plants
In this month's column Caroline discusses lessons learnt from this year's summer...
8th February 2022Myddelton House
In this month's column Caroline writes about the hidden gem in the crown of North London gardens that is the Myddelton House Gardens
12th November 2021An Afternoon at Delrow Social Farm
In this month's column Caroline talks about her trip to the Delrow Social Farm.
7th May 2021London Gardens Society
In this month's column Caroline discusses the London Gardens Society and their competitions.
15th April 2021I Do Love A Celebrity!
In this month's column Caroline reveals that she is a fan-girl at heart...
21st March 2021Spring Has Sprung!
In this month's column Caroline reflects on the changing of the seasons.
1st February 2021Trials and Tribulations
In this month's column Caroline reflects on the trialing of products from a Mail Order Supplier...
2nd January 2021Reasons to be Outdoors
In this month's column Caroline resolves to stay in love with the outdoors at all costs.
1st December 2020The Beauty that is Winter
In this month's column Caroline reflects on the changing of the seasons.
31st October 2020I Know I Said I Wouldn't But...
As a positive person, Caroline would describe her gardening experience as a case of Hope Over Experience - but...
3rd October 2020It's All Gone Feral!
Caroline knows she's said that she loves all things gardening but, well, she's having to question her relationship with the allotment...
14th August 2020Phew! What A Scorcher!
You'd think, wouldn't you, that with all this extra time and perpetual sunshine, Caroline would be in her horticultural element. But actually, No...
8th July 2020TIME TO REFLECT AND ADAPT.
Our new columnist, Caroline Broome, reflects on the current state of affairs...

 


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