Garden Yourself Healthy in 2021
At a time of new beginnings, could I make the case that you include the garden in your resolutions for 2021? Perhaps you could set yourself the challenge of [...]
At a time of new beginnings, could I make the case that you include the garden in your resolutions for 2021? Perhaps you could set yourself the challenge of [...]
These are challenging times for all of us, particularly having to conform to social isolation, but any gardener will tell you that their biggest consolation is being able to nurture [...]
Fritillaria meleagris Common name: Snake's head fritillary It's hard to describe the colour and pattern on the petals of these beautiful flowers which grow 'wild' in a [...]
A walk around any garden centre at this time of year will reveal a number of variegated, evergreen shrubs and perennials that catch the eye. And on a [...]
I've decided that camellias are a 'marmite' plant. There are plenty of gardeners who love their rose-like blooms which are produced in spring over glossy evergreen foliage: and then those [...]
I love this time of year. Dark, cold days, punctuated by bursts of feeble winter sunshine, when the gems and jewels that appear in the garden are all the more [...]
Beside my chair in the living room, at the moment, are piles of seed and plant catalogues, along with my iPad, ready for me to browse with the dog curled [...]
Many gardeners seem to have an in-built tidiness gene and go out armed with the secateurs to chop back things that they think look messy. This not only leaves you [...]
Flies aren’t much of a nuisance in the UK at this time of year, but in the summer we seem to get more than our fair share buzzing around here [...]