Little homes for a prairie

The fashion for meadow-esque plantings with flowering perennials woven between grasses has been with us since the early nineties. But these apparently wild pieces of planting are actually carefully co

THIS WEEK AT GLEBE COTTAGE

Now’s the time to add some summer stars for a burst of colour

IT’S midsummer, and this is usually the season when gardens are supposed to look their best – brimming with colour, buzzing with life, weed-free and calm, relaxing places for lounging with friends or

A major part of my gardening joy is visual, and as my knowledge and observational powers have improved over decades of gardening, so has my love of experimenting with colour schemes. When I first came

This gorgeous garden was given a new lease of life when a pest-ravaged lawn was replaced with naturalistic planting