Keep Your Summer Garden Looking Lush for Longer
Reading time 11 minutes
As mid summer turns into late summer, it’s all too easy to let your garden go to seed, literally. As a child I […]
Practical Advice
How to Create a Spring Bulb Theatre
Reading time 18 minutes
One can never plant too many spring-flowering bulbs. However tedious the chore may seem in late summer and autumn, planting spring bulbs is one […]
Bending the Rules
Reading time 6 minutes
In the world of gardening there are correct ways of doing things (as outlined in serious text books such as the RHS Encyclopaedia of […]
Top Tips for Choosing and Dressing Your Christmas Tree
Reading time 21 minutes
Every year my team and I dress a hundred or more Christmas trees for product reviews, press shows, store displays and special customers, but when […]
Planting a Narrow Border for Spring Colour
Reading time 9 minutes
Memories of summer may still linger, but it’s time for us gardeners to be looking forward to next year. There are bulbs to plant, […]
Tomato Time
Reading time 7 minutes
I was catching up on missed editions of Gardener’s World last night, listening to Monty Don bemoaning the fact that his outdoor tomatoes, although […]
Birthday Blooms
Reading time 3 minutes
When one’s birthday falls in early January, one learns not to expect too much in the way of tropical heat or blazing sunshine. However […]
Planting Containers for Winter Colour
Reading time 10 minutes
January can be a bleak month for us gardeners, our outdoor spaces painfully devoid of colour and working conditions far from ideal. The less […]
Deck the Halls
Reading time 6 minutes
One of the things I love most about Christmas is festooning our London flat with greenery and flowers. I adore the smell of fresh-cut pine and […]
Going Potty
Reading time 3 minutes
October and November are second only to May and June in terms of the amount there is to do in our garden. All four months […]
Top Tips: Preparing Your Garden for a Summer Holiday
Reading time 10 minutes
The school summer break is over and the kids are back for the autumn term, which means it must be time to take our holidays. […]
Sissinghurst – Crazy for Colchicums
Reading time 7 minutes
I am guilty, guilty of having twice visited Sissinghurst this year and not having posted anything about it. Had this been any other garden I […]