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 . . .
Read moreGardens, gardeners, and growing ideas
Some of the very best gardens I’ve seen have been made by people who are creative in the rest of . . .
Read moreI’ve gardened all my life and cannot imagine how I would feel if illness forced me to stop. Two years . . .
Read moreOn the path of garden DIY I’ve never attempted woodwork since a compulsory carousel of practical subjects in my first . . .
Read moreDespite growing houseplants since childhood, we’ve always had an uneasy relationship. True, I did keep an asparagus fern going for . . .
Read moreDid Shakespeare garden? Visitors to Stratford could be forgiven for thinking so as the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust maintains five gardens . . .
Read moreI’ve always loved Impressionist paintings and those by Monet in particular. As a student, a visit to the National Museum . . .
Read moreIt seems hard to imagine a time when gardeners didn’t encourage wildlife into their gardens. Most that I meet welcome . . .
Read moreIn common with many people, my first proper garden was small. A typical back-of-terrace town plot, it was narrow, overlooked . . .
Read moreFriends smiled when they heard I was reviewing Steven Desmond’s Gardens of the Italian Lakes. We are known as the . . .
Read moreTime was the only wild flowers I would see when visiting gardens were the weeds that the owner had missed. . . .
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