David’s Blog

  • Gardening for health, wellbeing and nature

    Could I make the case that you make gardening your go-to pastime for your own health and wellbeing? Perhaps .....

  • Garden jobs for late-winter days

    Whenever there are rainy days on the menu, my thoughts turn to doing some more seed sowing. I’ve got .....

  • What can I do with my Christmas tree

    I’m always shocked to see the skeletal remains of Christmas trees on the streets of towns and cities after Twelfth .....

  • What’s the point of variegated plants

    A walk around any garden centre at this time of year will reveal a number of variegated, evergreen shrubs .....

  • Off with their heads? Not yet

    Many gardeners seem to have an in-built tidiness gene and go out armed with the secateurs to chop back .....

  • Carnivorous plants – a taste for flies

    Flies aren’t much of a nuisance in the UK at this time of year, but in the summer we .....

  • Get to know your trees

    We tend to take trees for granted in our garden, parks and countryside. And in winter, devoid of leaves, you may pay .....