Garden Jargon: Your Free Guide

The winter of 2024 felt like it was an unrelenting slug through mud. The rare days were there wasn’t rain were marked by grey days. Even...

I was delighted to be asked by Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants to contribute an article on winter work in the garden. Granted, it's not the...

I was exceptionally fortunate to receive an RHS bursary to study the naturalistic perennial planting at Oudolf Garden Detroit in the...

This is based on an article I wrote for the Hardy Plant Society Journal in Autumn 2023, Vol. 44 No.2, reproduced with kind permission. I...

This is based on an article I wrote for Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants Newsletter, reproduced with kind permission. A lot of the work I do...

The summer holidays are here in the UK. While the weather might not be dry and sunny at present, the days are long and budgets are tight....

I don't know about where you live, but here May and June have been very dry and increasingly warm in Hampshire. We don't have a hosepipe...

A key theme I've picked up from clients and chatting to customers at Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants is of loss over the winter - scores of...

With a cost-of-living crisis and a climate emergency it can feel like gardening is just an expensive hobby that has to be parked. You...

We’ve experienced an incredibly mild first half of November 2022, with high temperatures abounding. This mild winter isn’t directly...

“I want a low maintenance, all year round colourful garden” is the cry I often hear. The question I have is – how low maintenance do you...

I had the privilege and pleasure of working at Hardys Cottage Garden Plants over the summer, which sparked lots of conversations about...

We’re now into November and it’s getting to tree planting season. In my view, trees are some of the most splendid living things on our...

Create a leaf library I don’t know if I am just paying more attention this year, but the autumn leaf colours seem particularly vivid....

Autumn can feel like the beginning of the end of the gardening year. But there’s still lots to enjoy in the soft autumn light that can...

Getting more for nothing You may have heard of “fast fashion” - buying cheap clothes on a whim which look good for a moment or two and...

One of the joys of gardening is discovering elements which look really impressive and give great pleasure, for very little effort. I can...

Lavender - has any plant flourished more this summer? I’ve loved seeing the bees and other pollinators scurry around in a frenzy of...

Gardening without the plastic Gardening without plastic. Sounds easy to do but it’s actually very hard to achieve in practice!...

"A garden is like a wardrobe – sort the basics before splurging on a fancy outfit" When I explain what garden editing is, I often use the...