Starting and growing your plants for dye production this year

Much as we all love to look at our garden plants, for me, the real joy in gardening has been about their wider usefulness. Whether it’s plants to eat and sustain us, heal us or to build with, they hav

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

In the first few years of growing cut flowers at Perch Hill, we would have some weeks where the place was bursting with flowers, making it hard to keep up, and other weeks (which frustratingly always

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

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