Cultivating the right to grow!

What better way to relax – and pick up some great ideas at the same time – than visiting a wonderful NGS garden?

Four years ago, Joy Lewty, 62, from Garforth, Leeds, was handed a pack of seeds. That simple gesture set in motion a chain of events that would change her life.

Reader Steve Watkin from County Durham explains why new skills and sustainability make growing such a joy

On a busy street in a small town in south Devon, there’s a secret door. I tentatively open it, head into what feels like a tunnel and then up some steps... into a pocket of magic. It’s an urban garden

Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards are a sacred haven for flora and fauna

We are gardening more than ever. According to surveys, over half the population in America and Europe are getting green-fingered, and data shows that numbers are rising. Humans have been creating gard