Gardening tips: plant heavenly bamboo
Then cut back your deciduous grasses and check out the new winter garden at WakehurstPlant this If you like the look of bamboo but...
Creating The Perfect Guest Room In Your Home
There are many people who have a spare room in their home that is filled with junk and not really used for anything constructive....
A time of celebration and preparation in the allotment
There’s no planting yet this year, but there’s still much pleasure to be had in planningEpiphany 2019. The high tide has turned, the winter...
Growing pains: how the climate crisis is changing British gardens
Across Britain, gardeners are facing the challenges of an unstable climate: extreme weather, unpredictability and prospering pests – and trying a range of solutions...
In praise of unrenovated kitchens and overgrown gardens
Our enthusiasm for turning where we live into display homes is making them soulless - and us boringIf you want a picture of...
Green shoots: how veganism is changing gardening
Giving up animal products this year? If so, you might want to rethink how you gardenThere are not many big ideas that come...
When it comes to feeding the soil, cow manure just can’t be beaten
Every gardener needs a top supplier of rotten muckThe magic of manure. Farmer Tom has been and gone. He left behind three sacks...
Why I’ve turned my house into a home for rescued plants
I like to feel that I’m rescuing them, but maybe it’s the other way aroundThere’s a greenhouse at the back of my local...
A blue to light your home – and your G&T
Blossom from the easy-to-grow butterfly pea plant adds an amazing azure hue to food and drinkHaving grown up in southeast Asia, I am...
Craft works: ‘We both make things – it was important our home reflected that’
Salvaged wood and friends’ art make this old malthouse a warm family homeWirksworth has always been a place where people make things,” says...
