Once a nursery school and orchard but struck by a bomb in 1942 and a ruin ever since, the Garden School Orchard in Wonford Road, Exeter is now opening for the first time in 80 years, for Hospiscare on…
July is often one of the hottest months of the year and probably the best time to sit out and enjoy your garden. It is vital to keep plants looking good by regularly dead-heading, which will mean a longer display of blooms. Make sure you keep new plants well-watered, using grey water where possible, and hoe off weeds, which thrive …
Once you learn how to grow cosmos, a favourite annual for summer garden colour, and realise just quite how easy it is, you’l…
Fritillaria are uncommon and trendy additions to spring gardens, blooming in a dizzying array of unusual shapes, sizes, colo…
Trees give your garden structure, provide shade and make a wonderful resource for wildlife – every garden should have them i…
Floriography is the language of flowers. And perhaps no more relevant for flower arrangers or rose growers than when they t…
Vivienne Lewis reviews a lavish new book on the scenic wonders of Stourhead, which …
