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 [...]
Bulb Planting Tips – my top 10! Spring-flowering bulbs should be planted from the beginning of autumn through to late December. Autumn is nature’s natural planting time and provides a [...]
A house plant studio as a pharmacy sounds a rather fanciful idea. But increasingly we’re realizing the benefit of surrounding ourselves with plants as we work. At the recent RHS Chelsea [...]
Chelsea Flower Show 2021 differed hugely from the previous 108 shows. This was the very first time that the prestigious flower show had been held in autumn. All previous shows were held in spring [...]
How to grow figs – after reading this I hope that you’ll try it yourself! Figs are often regarded as an exotic fruit and many assume that they are difficult to grow. This is not the [...]
