In a double whammy of gardening gloriousness, I went to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the first time. It was an incredible, exhausting, overwhelming, heaving, wonderful day. Thankfully I …

There is a garden in the Netherlands, just outside the little town of Lisse. It opens for just two months of the year in the spring and in this short …

I’ve been working through a list of winter jobs that has had me about the garden on sunnier days. It’s evident in the sunshine that we’re now well into late …

As I looked out of the kitchen window on an unusually sunny winter morning, a glint of bright yellow among a sea of brown caught my attention. Dressed but still …

Well, it’s been a few weeks since the two flower heads on the strelitzia tipped, ready to open and we now have the first set of flowers on display: This …

Seven years. Gardeners are a patient lot, they have to be. Many plants work on the timescale of years; a year to germinate, a few years to move on from …

A couple of years ago we made an island border, it was the first large border in the garden to be dug. We planted it with various shrubs, one of …

Although not as pronounced as when it happens in autumn, there are a couple of weeks in spring when the sun is at a low angle in the sky and it …