Review: The Thrifty Gardener
With prices rising almost daily, Mark Lane’s new book The Thrifty Gardener couldn’t have been better timed. Designed to show . . .
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Category: Featured
Back in Time at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2026
Designer Professor David Stevens is no stranger to creating memorable gardens at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, the show he opened . . .
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Review: The Easy Garden
Like many of my generation, I learned my gardening from parents, watching what they did and being encouraged to grow . . .
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My Gardening View #29
My Gardening View is certainly colourful now with tulips and daffodils filling borders and containers. There have been a few . . .
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Review: The Arboretum
Of all the plants that surround us, it’s often trees that provoke the biggest emotional response. Perhaps it’s because so . . .
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In Bloom at the Ashmolean
As a gardener and gardening journalist, plants are really important to me. However, their impact goes far beyond back gardens . . .
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Review: You’re Overwatering It!
Houseplants can be tricky. They grow in what are essentially artificial, indoor conditions, care advice can be conflicting and knowing . . .
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Review Stihl Battery-Powered Secateurs
Many, many years of shorthand and typing mean my hands aren’t what they once were and I find some gardening . . .
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Review: A Year of Colour
Who doesn’t want mood-lifting colour in their garden? It’s easy in summer with masses of flowers in bloom but, as . . .
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The 2025 Flower Gardening Trials
It’s the time of year when I start sowing the first of my cutting flowers so I’ve been looking back . . .
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