Seasonal
Is Your Garden Going to Sleep? No, It's Just Getting Started!
Ann-Marie Powell loves September in the garden: she joins Jane Perrone to discuss why this month marks the real start of your plot's new year.
Ann-Marie Powell
Award-winning designer and home gardener, weaving colour into gardens to create vibrant, nature-rich spaces. Join me in cultivating joyful outdoor havens that excite year-round.
Wellness & wellbeing
Cultivating Digital Roots
Can social media be a force for good? When I first started nervously talking to my phone in the garden, I stumbled into something extraordinary in the online gardening world. Here's what I learned about growing real connections in unexpected places.
Through the Garden Gates
Waltham Place, Where Nature Writes the Rules
Leaving conventional gardening theory at the gate, this garden changed everything I believed about planting design and changed how I see gardens forever. If you're ready for something different that's thrillingly alive, this garden is for you.
How to
Teaching My Teenagers to Garden: A Study in Mutual Torture
My honest struggle to share my gardening passion with my teenage sons reveals the surprising ways young people actually connect with green spaces - and what the horticultural industry might learn from it.
How to
Gardening on the Edge: A Tale from the Chaos of June
Welcome to June, where gardens explode, gardeners implode, and that once perfect spring border becomes gloriously, beautifully chaotic. Perhaps it's time to embrace the mess?
Garden design
Embracing Nature's Riot of Colour: A Gardener's Confessional Journey
Bloom boldly: One gardener's colourful rebellion against horticultural norms. Read the journey from timid novice to passionate advocate for daring hues, discovering the joy of breaking free from 'good taste' & embracing nature's bold colour palette.
Lawn
The Simple Joy of Lying Down: Why I’ll Never Get Rid of My Lawn
Lawns may be unfashionable in garden circles these days, but you can’t really lie down in a border, can you?
Wellness & wellbeing
Garden Wellbeing? Time to Tell It Like It Is
What does 'wellbeing' in the garden really mean or is it just a contemporary buzzword? For me it's about stolen moments in dressing gowns, sharing dawn tea with my husband, morning frost, and finding hope in every season.
Sustainability
2024: The Year Mother Nature Tore Up Our Gardening Rulebooks!
Nature rewrote the garden rules in 2024. From stressed trees to surprise slug invasions, this year proved "perfect" gardens are outdated. The future? Resilient spaces that flourish naturally