Creative Partner at Scribehound and member of The Garden Collective. Host of podcast On The Ledge and the author of The Allotment Keeper's Handbook, Legends of the Leaf and The Atlas of Deadly Plants.
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Everyone wants to know which houseplants to grow to make their home smell good. Here are the answers, along with the one thing you can do to stop your houseplant soil from smelling bad
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Bekonscot Model Village near Beaconsfield is a great day out for the whole family. But there's more to it than that.
From akadama to coir, there are so many potting mix ingredients on the market now, so trying to find what to use for your houseplants can be confusing. Here's my guide to making sure you can report with ease.
There are three trees that captivated my as a child, but only one still provides me with a double harvest every year: the generous, mysterious, much-maligned elder tree.
It's April 1, so I am taking a look at three plants that fool, and revealing my top tip for dealing with the horror that is a fungus gnat infestation.
When a houseplant went AWOL from the White House, the spotlight was finally thrown on a species that deserves much more attention.
It's edible, it's pretty and I love it: consider this the start of my one-woman campaign to rebrand and rehabilitate a much-hated plant.
The houseplant game is a different one to outdoor gardening: when it goes wrong, the evidence is sitting there in front of your eyes, not tucked away outside. But if you've failed before, it's time to get back in business with my potted wisdom.