Edibles
Edible Flowers - Not Just a Pretty Face
Edible flowers are not a fancy fad; they form an important part of our culinary history and growing them will bring much joy to your kitchen and garden.
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Garden design
Rediscover the Lost Art of Observation and Drawing
Is our obsession with phone cameras making us lose the art of seeing? Discover how reclaiming sketching can transform your creativity, regardless of your skill level.
Garden design
The Best Possible Taste
The arbiters of good taste in the garden are subject to just as many personal whims as anyone else - including me.
Growing for eating
I ate them so you don’t have to
DJ John Peel said that if The Fall released an album he didn't like, he would assume he just didn't know how it was good yet; this is an excellent way of approaching produce from the kitchen garden, but a very small handful of harvests defy optimism.
Herbs
From Kitchen King to Health Hero: Basil Unleashed
Basil's one of those herbs that just keeps on giving. It surprises me in the kitchen, it amazes me in the medicine cupboard, and it's steeped in more history and folklore than you'd ever imagine.
Through the Garden Gates
Paradise is a State of Mind: Lessons from a Cornish Garden
Why does my own garden feel like a to-do list but someone else's feels like paradise? The Potager taught me that gardens are more than the weeding and the watering, and that there are deeper lessons to be found in this most special of places.
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?
Autobiography
Enjoying Gardens With Every Sense
Gaining a sense of senses - the feel, touch, taste, smell and sounds of gardening that matter to us.
Plantspeople
A Wild Life: Meet Chris Baines, The Original Wildlife Gardener
He has been championing British wildlife habitats under threat since the 1970s, and Chris Baines is still one of our leading environmentalists today, spreading the word that every garden, however small, can help reverse the decline
Wildlife
For Fox Sake - Get off My Plants!
How to resolve the love/hate relationship with these beautiful visitors!
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.
Garden history
The Legacy of Lancelot Brown: Vandal, Visionary or Facilitator?
The landscape park’s journey during the 18th century was as serpentine as the paths and lakes which would later define it, whilst absorbing different trends along the way.