The passionate gardener

Creating a manageable garden around a Georgian rectory in rural Norfolk is an ongoing process for two keen gardeners

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

It took me a while to love roses as a plant. I had always admired the flowers in the kind of knee-jerk way that most of us love sunsets or the song of a blackbird, but I had no feeling for them as pla

I’M on a mission to introduce more alliums into my garden. These fantastic flowers are great for colour, structure and impact – and pollinators love them, too! Alliums are basically ornamental onions;

Succ it and see! We really enjoy the ...

Originally a means of keeping a living record of garden plants, our 722 National Plant Collections–of everything from Abies to Zingiber –set the gold standard across the world. Charles Quest-Ritson meets some of the expert collection holders