The Chelsea Flower Show
The year is flying by and it's nearly May already; at long last the optimism of spring has reached even this weary and cynical gardener. May arrives with great flourish, [...]
Ben Probert
Suddenly It’s Spring
I like to lie in bed and contemplate the day before I get up. It's one of life's little luxuries, to gently wake up to birdsong and the morning light [...]
Houseplants As Dehumidifiers
I feel I should start this piece with an apology. Spring has well and truly arrived here in the UK and I fully intended to write about the beauty of [...]
Dwindling Societies
I stepped out of the village hall and into the dark night. It had been a tough 90 minutes; an hour of a fairly lousy speaker rambling on about spring [...]
Early Spring In Cornwall
After what feels like an eternity of dark and dismal days, the optimism of spring is slowly creeping in. Lengthening days are very much welcome; even if it's raining the [...]
Naked Trees
Winter has taken hold here; while British winters are generally more benign than those in some parts of the world, I concede that the cycle of frost then wet and [...]
Introspective
I had a rather nasty accident at work last week. I'll spare you the details, save to say that it was with a log splitter and could have been so [...]
A Floral Tradition
This is the big season for traditions. Some are widespread and popular, while others stay within our families. Some might even be personal to us as individuals. Near my home [...]
Fallen Trees
This has been a rather stormy weekend, with some parts of the UK seeing winds up to 85mph. Compared to the hurricanes that batter parts of the US these winds [...]
Our Stories
I'm fascinated by stories about how people came to gardening. I've heard a few over the years, and gardeners seem to fall into two camps. There are those who were [...]