In the spotlight

Karen Youngs has a painful encounter with a nettle patch on an afternoon walk

IF you love houseplants you’ve probably come across them – those tiny little annoying flies that flit around the soil, and seem to enjoy flying straight into your face or your cup of tea. They’re fung

I’ve always loved figs. My first experience of growing them was when I was in my early twenties working in the fruit department at RHS Wisley. We grew lots in containers in the polytunnel, and I remem

On a windswept bluff in West Sussex lies an artist’s glorious garden – a quiet triumph shaped by salt spray and shifting tides

Sally Coulthard reveals the darker side of some of our most bewitching blooms

With the beach just a pebble’s throw away, this once-barren Suffolk garden is now a dreamy mix of relaxed, contemporary planting that thrives in the salt-laden winds