landscape and garden design in Clapham, London
One of the Persicaria we’re not judging on the RHS Persicaria Trial Forum is Persicaria orientalis because it’s an
I love rhubarb. I love its flavour and I love how easy it is to grow. I always recommend planting rhubarb before anything else
A group of plants I grow a lot in my own garden and in my clients’ garden designs is the perennial Salvias. Salvias are
Not everyone has a miniature water lily but they really should! Easy to grow in any still water at a depth of about 30 –
It wasn’t until I started growing my own vegetables I even clocked that purple sprouting broccoli existed. In the superm
I love leafy begonias with their wonderful patterns, colours and shapes. In fact, I can’t have enough of them. The only
Living in a tiny one bed urban flat here in London, it proves quite a challenge for growing tender exotics. Advice is always t
I’ve often written that in some ways growing dahlias well is the easiest thing in the world and by equal measure, tricky
Here’s my guide to pruning / pollarding a Cordyline australis: chop it down to whatever height you want and it will grow
If there’s one plant I can guarantee you’ll see more of this year it’s Persicaria runcinata ‘Purple Fa
Many trees and shrubs can be grown from hardwood cuttings, roses being one of the most common examples. Exactly as you’d
When we open our garden for charity on the National Garden Scheme one thing people always comment on is our micro pond with it
A couple of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’.
A year ago I experimented with nipping out the growing point of my Aeonium ‘Zwartkop‘ to make it branch. It w
Last year I ordered a small Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’ from an independent nursery off of eBay. In the summer it