Barbara Segall's Blog: The Garden Post

Barbara Segalls’s list of Essex gardens has something for everyone – and if you are nimble and well-organised you could visit a garden at least twice a week throughout the gardening season.

As featured in the April 2026 issue of Essex Life.

Sowing and growing sweet cicely in your garden makes the perfect companion for rhubarb, reveals Barbara Segall in her regular column for Homegrown Kitchen.

As featured in the March 2026 issue of Homegrown Kitchen magazine.

The award-winning designer and presenter Arit Anderson tells Barbara Segall how we can create beautiful gardens to benefit wildlife and ourselves.

This article appeared in the 28 March 2026 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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Shake off any February blues with a visit to one of Essex’s wonderful gardens. Barbara Segall has ideas to tempt you out to enjoy spring flowers, and in particular, those beautiful harbingers of spring: snowdrops

As featured in the February 2026 issue of Essex Life.

In a new regular column about what she grows in her own garden to use in her kitchen, gardening and food writer Barbara Segall reveals the many ways in which rosemary can be used as a culinary herb.

As featured in the February 2026 issue of Homegrown Kitchen magazine.

In a new regular column about what she grows in her own garden to use in her kitchen, gardening and food writer Barbara Segall reveals the many ways in which rosemary can be used as a culinary herb.

As featured in the February 2026 issue of Homegrown Kitchen magazine.

John and Jenny Brett have created an all-year garden design at St Mary’s, combining formal plant structures with colourful insect-friendly perennials, but in winter, when dusted with white and dancing with shadows, the garden shimmers.

As featured in the October 2025 issue of Period Living magazine.

Barbara Segall visits Sarah Vermont, who discovered her inner artist on moving to Hungerdowns in Essex. Now an accomplished topiarist, Vermont has coaxed dazzling forms from yew to fill this former farmyard. As featured in the December 2025 issue of The English Garden.

Barbara Segall looks at how are we future-proofing our historic parks and gardens – and what can we learn in terms of creating sustainable new spaces going forward

As featured in the November 2025 issue of Gardeners’ World

Jo Thompson, five-times Chelsea Gold Medal-winning garden designer, author and writer, explains to Barbara Segall how we can recreate her nature-friendly style at home. This article appeared in the 18 October 2025 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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