Garden words: Purely for medicinal purposes

March 11, 2017

The Gardener’s Companion to Medicinal Plants Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Confession time: I do like to self-medicate. Not, I must …

Herby adventures

September 10, 2016

I have been planting herbs. More to the point, I have been experimenting with herb containers: a gardening marriage made …

June 8, 2014

On the whole, I’m a pretty rugged sort of person. A disproportionate amount of my gardening time seems to be …

May 26, 2014

As the bulldozers rumble in and we leave Chelsea for another year (pause for a muffled sob into my hanky): …

January 14, 2013

I am having a bit of a dilemma. I’m in the middle of that bit of the year in which …