To grow early strawberries is easy and in this blog I’ll tell you how I do it. As with much of life forward planning is everything. If you want home grown tasty and fresh strawberries in [...]

Plant ornamental grass with perennial partners to create a magical effect. One partner compliments the other so well! The rise in popularity of gardening with ornamental grass shows no sign of [...]

Keukenhof Garden near Amsterdam puts on an astounding annual display of spring flowering bulbs. At the end of a cold and grey winter in Europe visitors flood to see this colour spectacle but [...]

Cruising the Alaskan Inside Passage The Inside Passage of Alaska used to puzzle the Western World. Local First Nation peoples spoke of a way to the north between the huge island of Vancouver and [...]

Scottish Buddhist Monastery A Scottish Buddhist Monastery in Scotland? Yes, there really is! Having visited a few in Nepal and Sikkim I was skeptical when friends suggested a visit to the Samye [...]

I’ve been fortunate in visiting South Africa many times but still the sight of the Namakwaland Desert blooming eluded me. The Northern Cape, close to the border with southern Namibia, is renowned [...]

Cape fynbos is found only at the southern-most tip of that great continent Africa! Fynbos literally translated from Afrikaans means ‘fine bush’. It’s an area of extraordinary plant diversity and [...]

Brazilian plants are some of the most exciting on the planet! With all eyes on that fantastic city Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Games being held there, I thought that I’d share with you some of [...]

I’ve just returned from a few weeks break in Brazil and spent much of my trip looking at spectacular wildlife such as jaguar, giant otter and fabulous bird life! During those ventures into the [...]

The English Lakes in autumn can be one of the most beautiful places on earth! That is if you get the weather right and avoid a soaking! This Felicity and I did in late October of this year. We [...]

It’s March and there is a feel of spring in the air. Time to get sowing, potting and planning the bedding plant display for this summer! But what if our climate were to really warm up and [...]

Whatever you buy nowadays, it seems to be made in China doesn’t it? You would think that would be limited to manufactured goods wouldn’t you? And that the Chinese influence [...]