For too often this super food berry has had a reputation of being troublesome – needing acidic soil, cross pollination…

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The bestselling Victorian garden writer with the unusual name brought gardening to the masses in this country in the 1870s w…

Garden centres are now bursting with piled high choices for compost, but how do you make the right choice for the right gard…

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Rosi Rollings has been a passionate plantswoman and gardener all her life, and in 2008 became a beekeeper. A year later she …

Susie Hunt re-visits the sensational Oxfordshire gardens at Waterperry where there’s a new air of optimism and changes are a…

Conifers are back in fashion. Devon nurseryman Grahame Oakey should know. He propagates up to 15 species of conifers at his …