Shepherd’s delight

MANY years ago, when I developed and printed my own black and white photographs, I took a picture of a Highland pony named Ailsa that I looked after. It’s not a remarkable image, but I found it recent

Praised in poetry, cultivated by Duchesses and an important life force for insects, could it be that ragwort is unfairly maligned, asks Bethany Stone

Discover how nature’s offerings have been healing and protecting for centuries

I am, generally, indiscriminate in my enthusiasm for vegetables. But not when it comes to potatoes. I don’t cook them often, so I never bothered growing them in my veg patch. They take up too much spa

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, writer and former chair of Gardeners' Question Time