Review: My Life With Plants by Roy Lancaster
I first met Roy Lancaster when he led a guided tour of Plas Cadnant gardens as part of the North . . .
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Review: A Little History of British Gardening
My father always used to say that if you hung onto something long enough it would eventually come back into . . .
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Review: Good Soil by Tina Raman, Ewa-Marie Rundquist & Justine Lagache
For many gardeners, feeding the soil is like the plumbing in a house, essential but frankly uninspiring. Indeed, the women . . .
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Review: Urban Flowers by Carolyn Dunster
It’s been some years since my gardening was confined to a few houseplants and some pots balanced precariously outside a . . .
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Review: Gardens of Marrakesh by Angelica Gray
If gardening books should inspire or inform, then Gardens of Marrakesh succeeds on both fronts. Part history lesson, part traveller’s . . .
Read moreReview: The Book of Orchids
I’ve always been nervous of orchids. Partly because I’m not known for my skill with houseplants. Things that grow outside . . .
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Review: The Gardener’s Companion to Medicinal Plants
As a child, I was always given swede and brown sugar at the first sign of a cough. An old . . .
Read moreReview: 101 Organic Gardening Hacks by Shawna Coronado
In my world, a hack is an old hand on a newspaper so it’s just as well Shawna Coronado starts . . .
Read moreReview: Build a Better Vegetable Garden
On the path of garden DIY I’ve never attempted woodwork since a compulsory carousel of practical subjects in my first . . .
Read moreReview House of Plants by Caro Langton and Rose Ray
Despite growing houseplants since childhood, we’ve always had an uneasy relationship. True, I did keep an asparagus fern going for . . .
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