There are bare branches on my chestnut tree…

Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, writer and former chair of Gardeners' Question Time

Autumn and winter tend to be the seasons when the structure of a garden is most appreciated. Frost picks out the shapes of evergreen shrubs and hedging, and sun pierces through a filigree of bare bran

Fallen branches and rotting stumps may look forsaken, but deadwood plays an essential role in the woodland

THE PROBLEM SOLVER

There is a plum tree growing wild on wasteland with delicious fruits borne on its many suckers. If I dig up a sucker can I grow this tree in my garden or do I have to make a graft? Self-seeded plum tr

Why were some of our sunflower heads deformed? ...