Good bad plants

There’s room for some - but not always for all with pushier plants explains Toby

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,

These proven performers can handle heat, shade, drought and more – but some do come with a warning!

THERE’S nothing better in midsummer than going into the garden and listening to the buzzing of bees going about their business – especially if you are taking the chance to sit and relax! Similarly, it

Plants are so clever at adapting to their increasingly hot, sunny and dry surroundings

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