Essays
Following Your Nose - Scent in the Winter Garden
From lipstick to chocolate, there is plenty of perfume for the January garden indoors and out
Latest
Essays
Designing Your Perfect Garden: Understanding Your Garden's Location
How a Terry’s Chocolate Orange, gazing over your neighbour's fence, and a bit of subliminal cognizance can help you on your garden design journey.
Essays
Where it all Began - My Gardens Inspiration
The garden of my family home has always been the inspiration for my career as a garden writer. A succession of my predecessors were responsible for its creation through three centuries, with ups and downs along the way.
Essays
Creating a Garden Aviary Without the Cage
The importance of garden birds is becoming increasingly clear and in this article I outline why. Find out what we can be doing as gardeners to encourage them to visit, or better still to come and live and breed in our gardens.
Essays
Winter Gloss
In praise of a slightly random collection of evergreens
Autobiography
Gardening with mini dictators
Are children simply another pest to deal with in the garden? A question I ask myself regularly as flowers are beheaded and a tyrannical toddler soaks me with the hose. Here are some tips to survive, and dare I say, enjoy gardening with kids!
Essays
Tom Stuart-Smith on the Crisis Facing Rousham
One of our finest historic gardens is at risk of losing its tremendous setting: garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith hopes to change that.
Essays
Who Says Boundaries are a Good Thing?
Forget rigid boundaries between indoors and out. As autumn deepens, bring nature inside with preserved beech branches, paperwhite bulbs nestled in glass, and wild clematis wreaths. It's about softening edges and celebrating the season's golden beauty
Essays
Common ... or Garden?
From white gardens to tool trollies, here is a list of all the things I find 'common' in the gardening world - just don't ask about my hot tub.
Essays
The Garden Collective Wins at the Garden Media Guild Awards
Channel founder James Alexander-Sinclair crowned digital writer of the year
Essays
Seeds of Change: Harnessing Lunar Power in Your Garden
New research suggests there really may be a link between the moon's phases and the way plants grow. Is it time to make use of this ancient knowledge for ourselves?
Essays
Lock Down
I would like to share somewhere very special with you for my first Scribehound Gardening article, a place called Caisson Gardens, located only a handful of miles south of Bath, in North Somerset.