Garden design
Daring to Grow the Impossible: Tales of Botanical Triumphs
Pushing the boundaries with cold hardiness can be hit and miss, but the rewards are enormous, and you’ll have great fun along the way!
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Through the Garden Gates
If You Prick a Raw Paw, Then Next Time: Beware...
A trek to The Huntington ended with my falling in love with cacti - something I never expected to happen.
Flowers
Umbellifer Weather
From the periwinkle-blue jellyfish flowers of Didiscus caeruleus to the neon paint spatters of giant fennel, the umbellifers have been particularly impressive in my garden this year.
Garden design
Why Grasses Are the Unsung Heroes of Modern Gardens
Here's to the most successful plant on the planet: at this time of year, grasses can play a supporting role, or take centre stage.
Growing for eating
Juice and Jam - Allotment Fruits of Friendship
There is so much more to be won from an allotment than fruit and vegetables!
Through the Garden Gates
How One Woman Brought a Japanese Garden to a Scottish Valley
'In a sheltered foothold of a grassy range of hills, that stretch from sunrise to sunset, lies the garden of my dreams ...' Ella Christie.
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.
Flowers
Force Yourself: Growing Hyacinths ‘On Glass’
Finding the roots of forcing hyacinths for a delicious spectacle and scent.
Through the Garden Gates
A Glimpse of Heaven
Chatsworth offers spectacle and grandeur, but there is so much more to this elegant Capability Brown landscape.
Through the Garden Gates
Through the Garden Gate
What makes a favourite garden? Design? Planting? Magnificence? Or something else, almost entirely unrelated to the place itself?
Garden history
Shed and Other Ologies: insert BT gag here.
My promised introduction to dipping a toe into the wonderful world of garden history. But which ology should we choose - and is it greedy to want them all?
Regenerative
Royalty and Regenerative Farming - Groundswell Festival 2025
Regenerative farming is nudging its way into the mainstream, but what does the term actually mean? Come with me to the UK's annual Regenerative Farming Festival 'Groundswell' to find out.