MASSIVE tidy up this weekend! The building work is almost finished and for the first time…
8 tips for buying a Christmas tree
Christmas trees are brilliant. However the way they are sold can be a bit wasteful, cost…
Planting spring bulbs – tulips, snowdrops, fritillaria and alliums
This year I’m planting my spring bulbs for the spring White Garden in three stages:
Autumn at Kew Gardens
It feels like Kew Gardens is upping its garden design efforts – or perhaps I’m just…
Pot’s Growing On in October 2015? Bulb planting, removing plants and adding new ones!
As the nights draw in and the temperatures turn colder, there’s a sudden sense that the…
Pot’s Growing On: cuttings to overwinter
Today I took softwood cuttings of a few plants in order to overwinter them more easily…
A reason why the London Garden Bridge might be a good thing
The London Garden Bridge is fairly hotly debated. On the face of it, a tree lined…
Solenostemon scuttelarioides (aka Coleus)
Victorian’s freakin’ loved a lot of plants. They thought plants were cool. Because plants are cool.…
Planting Galanthus nivalis bulbs (Snowdrops)
Today I planted 50 x Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop) bulbs and 9 x Fritillaria meleagris ‘Alba’ bulbs.…
Book Review: Succession Planting for Adventurous Gardeners by Christopher Lloyd
As a novice gardener, there are gardening concepts we all struggle with (dappled shade vs light…