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

Forget baked beans – rustle up this tasty mushroom topping for jackets instead. The recipe uses just a handful of ingredients and the dish is healthy, low-calorie and gluten-free. These are just the t

OF all the vegetables, I think it is ...

Erysimum Rysi Copper One of the definitions of a wallflower is that of a shy and awkward person with whom nobody wants to dance: I am sure we have all felt like that at some point in our adolescence.

Modest, alluring and versatile, Viola odorata, or sweet violet, is a small, hardy, herbaceous perennial that tumbles and scrambles close to the ground, forming dense clumps of dainty, heart-shaped, gr

Picotee-pink-edged, large flowers that look at you from a tall stem. Followed by marbled evergreen leaves. A sterile cultivar from Rodney Davey, it flowers prolifically as its energy is saved for flow