Planning for the 2018 cutting garden
The weather may still be wintery but I’m already starting to think about summer and plan the 2018 cutting garden. . . .
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Review: Wild Mocktails and Healthy Cocktails by Lottie Muir
There’s always something appealing about a cocktail. Colourful, often beautifully dressed and served in a fancy glass, they shout fun . . .
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What’s new in the Cotswold National Garden Scheme for 2018
The garden visiting season gets underway this month with the publication of The National Garden Scheme guide and there’s plenty . . .
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Putting tiger nuts to the test
As a gardening journalist, I’m used to receiving all sorts of unexpected things to trial but one that stood out . . .
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Review: The Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley
Some of the very best gardens I’ve seen have been made by people who are creative in the rest of . . .
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Cotswold snowdrop gardens for 2018
If snowdrops are your thing, then the Cotswolds is one of the places to be over the next few weeks. . . .
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Growing sweet peas
Sweet peas are one of nature’s deceivers. Their tissue paper petals in pretty shades suggest a plant that needs coddling . . .
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Hits and misses of the 2017 garden trials
One of the delights of gardening is trying something new and I’ve been given a whole range of things for . . .
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Dahlias break out
For years, I’ve kept my love of dahlias safely contained. Trying to grow them in borders proved impossible as plants . . .
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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 . . .
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