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IT being the season for the painted purple ...

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week!

With returning swifts screaming across the rooftop and golden buttercup pollen gilding his Wellingtons as he strides across the cow meadow, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the many pleasures of May

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

Spectacular, intriguing and rather bizarre, Sarracenia is a group of plants that defies expectation. Their bold and colourful trumpets look exotic, even alien, yet they are resoundingly earthbound, an

Are you hankering after a beautiful garden that is full of diversity but also one that isn’t a burden? If so, bombproof plants are the answer. These hard-working and reliable specimens will create a g