What’s all the buzz about bees?

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

Iona Chisholm A developing family garden and ...

FOR those without a garden of their own – or perhaps without one big enough to grow all they want to grow – owning an allotment can be a vital sanctuary, a community and a productive space. There are

Bee venom and beauty might make strange bedfellows, but, as Jane Wheatley discovers, they are a combination fit for a Queen

WHEN Tracy Halls’s daughter Sascha came home from school in early 2017 and told her mother she’d seen a duckling in trouble, she had no idea that this day would turn out to be life changing. “We went

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