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After a scorching summer, the garden and I had reached an unspoken agreement: I wouldn’t bother it, and it wouldn’t remind me how much work needed doing. Then…
There are some plants that arrive in a blaze of glory, already in flower and quite certain of their place in the garden. Wallflowers are not among them….
There is something rather appealing about gardening by the Moon. Long before weather apps, growing guides and carefully printed planting calendars, gardeners looked to the natural world for…
There is something wonderfully satisfying about making your own compost. Kitchen peelings, fallen leaves, grass cuttings and garden clippings that might otherwise be thrown away can be transformed…
I have never liked pansies. There, I have said it. It feels a rather unkind admission about a flower that has done nothing more offensive than turn up…
A little late-summer sunshine Just when the garden begins to look a little tired, goldenrod arrives with armfuls of yellow. It is bright without being brash, wonderfully easy-going…
Flowers have a habit of getting all the attention. We wait for the first roses to open, admire great clouds of hydrangea flowers and notice immediately when a…
There is something rather special about discovering a garden within the walls of an old estate, and Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk has plenty to tempt anyone who enjoys…
There is something rather irresistible about growing chillies. Perhaps it’s the extraordinary variety. One plant might be hung with small scarlet fruits fierce enough to transform an entire…
There are few sights in the kitchen garden quite as cheering as the first rhubarb of the year. After spending winter apparently asleep beneath the soil, the crowns…