Going to seed

Wildlife matters

Saving seed from your garden is the ultimate in foraging – a free and exciting method of increasing your favourite plants year after year

Provide a natural autumn and winter food source for our feathered friends

Decorating the land with their brilliant and varied hues, our native flora–which operate as clocks, calendars and Nature’s medicine cabinet–are simply blooming brilliant,

Anne reveals rewarding ways to maximise the edible potential of the garden in August

Save seeds from the heads of grasses that may not survive the winter. Ornamental grasses such as pennisetum are marginally tender and particularly susceptible to frost damage when grown in heavy soil.