Simon akeroyd’s flavour garden hazelnuts

There is no doubt that 2026 will be different. As the year ends in the garden that I’ve created and tended over the past 23 years, a new challenge is waiting in the wings. We are moving from the chalk

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OUTDOOR SPACE THIS MONTH WITH OUR GUIDE TO THE CHANGING SEASONS

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

There is something about the frosty crunch of the hard frozen ground as I walk in the garden in December that makes me think of gooseberries. Perhaps it’s partly because of the goose bumps on my skin

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

IT is November 1964. Mr Mackenzie, in his ...