Keeping with the recent theme of gems, I recently caved and did a bulb order. A very large one. The largest one yet, in fact – and that’s remembering the …

I must admit that the picture is rather underwhelming, three pots of dormant sticks and they’re the supposed gems of the garden? With most things garden-related however, it’s not the …

One of the best things about growing in the UK and particularly in the south is pushing the boundaries on just what you can get away with growing. As I look …

This is not about lettuce. As I have been banned from buying any more clematis, terracotta pots or climbing roses by my other half, I thought the relationship would survive …

Part 1 of this mini-series introduced the corner border as an expansion project, in which there was a flurry of activity in marking it out, cutting the edge and then a …

The Crescent is a narrow strip of border with one end attached to Magnolia Hill. Its shape was dictated from having a large semi-circular border marked on one side of the …

In Part 1 of the “Nomadic Patio Pot Plants”, I described how the pot plants came to be and how the display grew ever larger, yet often changing, only to …

In Part 1 of “The New Front Border”, I described a front border that began with good intentions, but mutated from a dream into a nightmare in two years. The …