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Autumn and winter is the perfect time of the year to plant garden trees and in this blog I want to cover fruiting trees for the small garden! Now, you might expect me to launch off into apples, [...]

Many of my top ten scented winter garden plants are mostly shrubs. But if you read on you’ll see that they are not all woody plants. What they all have in common is that they are remarkably [...]

We’re being increasingly encouraged to plant garden trees for wildlife. We plant trees for many reasons; to provide shelter, shade, fuel, food or even just to please the eye. But trees are [...]

Growing British apples gives us the opportunity to eat something better! A visit to your local supermarket is unlikely to provide you with much choice and certainly few British varieties. So if [...]

Storing apples should be easy and especially if you follow a few simple rules. From time to time we enjoy a bumper harvests of tree fruits. Any year, and particularly during financially [...]

My top ten plants for autumn list has been challenging to collate! That’s not because I struggled to find ten, it’s because there are just so many to choose from! I have restricted my [...]