Read by topic
However you like to spend your time in the garden, there's a thread of writing here in the Garden Collective for you to follow. Browse by the subjects closest to your own, from edibles to people to wellness and wellbeing, and find the essays, ideas and voices that speak to the way you garden, and the way you live.
Just click on the options below to go straight to all of our essays on that topic. We have also run series and themed months and this is also the place to find those collections.
If you want to read all of the essays as they come out, you can do this on the home page.
By topic
Garden design
Inspiration and insight from gardeners and designers.
Stephen Lacey
Wellness & wellbeing
Here for pieces on how we feel about our gardens, & how our gardens influence how we feel. Physical health, mental health, emotional wellbeing. It’s all here.
Advolly Richmond
Inspirational gardens - Garden Collective
Gardens that we adore, that stay with us, or that have changed how we garden.
Stephen Lacey
Growing for eating
Celebrating the trials and tribulations of stocking the kitchen and the pantry from the garden.
Jane Perrone
Flowers
For all the anthophiles in the Garden Collective. Everything floral: growing, cutting, enjoying.
Simon Lycett
Herbs
A small but mighty group of experts and enthusiasts on all things herbal.
Jane Perrone
Sustainability
Growing with the planet in mind. How we garden in ways that give back rather than take. From reducing waste and working with nature’s rhythms to the bigger questions about how we live and grow more thoughtfully, these are the pieces on doing right by the earth.
Arit Anderson
Plantspeople - Garden Collective
People who have inspired us & made a change to gardening.
Matthew Pottage
Autobiography
Stories of relationships with gardens, gardening and gardeners. Sharing personal experiences of how plants, landscapes and flowers have shaped us.
Hedy Eagan
Wildlife - Garden Collective
The creatures a garden shares its space with; birds, insects, hedgehogs, and everything in between. These are the pieces about noticing what moves through a garden, and the small choices that make it a place worth visiting for something other than us.
Helen Hutchings Cox
Garden Collective series
Garden Therapy
A series by Dr Grace Alexander. For nearly fifteen years, gardening and psychology have existed alongside each other in my life - slotted neatly into hours on and hours off. Garden Therapy is where they finally entwine and where I apply my psychological curiosity to a relationship that matters profoundly to so many of us: our relationship with our gardens and the outdoors.
Grace Alexander
How to design a garden
Chris Young: My passion is garden design. I love to understand why a garden works; what makes it good (or bad); what principles of garden design have been used; and, ultimately, why it works. And that’s what I’m going to be writing about in this series; garden design and how to do it.
Chris Young