On the hedge of glory

Ancient rural skills in a modern world

Throughout August I cut the box hedges that give shape to the vegetable garden. They’re just under waist height but that’s enough to protect most plants from the wind and they are a good dark backgrou

Hatfield House Work on this Jacobean house began in 1607 under instruction from the first Earl of Salisbury, Robert Cecil, and it has remained in the Cecil family ever since. Some 21 miles north of Lo

Bringing you some of the gardening news highlights

A meeting at a Royal Horticultural Society show in the sumptuous surroundings of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire brought together garden designer Phil Hirst and garden owners Alan and Mandy Peel, who w

Sun, scent and super colour