Christmas
Gardening gifts- the highs and lows.
Something to think about if you're buying a gift for a gardener or want to drop a hint to get a good one yourself!
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Garden design
Discover Your Dream Garden: Start with These Five Questions
Are you wanting to give your garden a new lease of life? Or just update a small part of it? Start your garden design journey with me, focusing this month on working out what you actually want to do in your garden
Winter
Myths and Magic Hidden in Your Midwinter Garden
A stroll through the stories and myths of the solstice garden.
Herbs
Herbs of Hearth and Holiday: Sage, Bay, Rosemary
Come in from the dark and cold; the kitchen glows with light and the scent of sage, bay and rosemary. They still whisper of warmth, belonging and the promise of returning light.
Christmas
I'm a Poinsettia Grinch
The dark side of poinsettias revealed: time for change
Christmas
Eight Simple Promises for a More Joyful Gardening Year
Next year, I am going to ensure gardening is even more at the heart of my life: care to join me?
Christmas
The Garden Collective Christmas Quiz 2025
Answer our fiendish questions - I'll bring you the answers tomorrow!
Plant profiles
What's in a Plant Name?
When did Gloxinia become Sinningia, and why? It's enough to make a gardener throw in the towel.
Christmas
Delightful Things 2
Pheasant, velvet ribbon, wrapping paper, roses.
Sculpture
Neither Use Nor Ornament
There’s a certain honesty in a cottage garden that is decorated with gnomes. So let's be brave when it comes to choosing decorative items for our own plots.
Houseplants
Will You Join Me In The Hand Lens Gang?
This one simple tool will unlock a whole new world in your garden.
Sustainability
No Thank You, I'm Organic
Join me on my journey from a green love affair, to plant addiction, to organic recovery. The lessons I've learned along the way and why cherishing each and every plant could be the greatest gift for your garden this Christmas.