Long dark evenings are the time to start planning your spring and summer garden, particularly when we are all in lockdown. I am offering online consultations which are proving rather…

  Last Sunday, I opened my garden, with thirty-two other gardens nearby, for Faversham Open Gardens. Andy Garland and Steve Bradley from Radio Kent's Sunday Gardening programme arrived at 10 o'clock…

Imagine the satisfyingly stiff green shoots in your garden, which you are gloating over now, in a few months. Will there be a perfect climactic moment of gorgeous flowering before…

Plants go in and out of fashion but the weight of scorn falls heaviest on those plants which march on through the decades, successful and healthy, in barely tended gardens.…

A tiny pot of iris reticulata plonked on a rickety green chair outside the kitchen window charms me while I eat my porridge in the bone-cracking cold of these January…