The Mr and Mrs of Plant Hates
I love sedums. My wife doesn’t. It’s one of those eternal dilemmas you get in horticulture/marriage – you can’t always agree on every...
Clovergrown
Anyone who’s read the Grumpy Gardener’s Handbook will know that I don’t need much of an excuse to delay doing things in the garden. But...
Going large
“You must have a lovely big garden,” enthused the woman from the National Trust shop. I didn’t, but I didn’t want to disappoint her by...
On the right bank
Traveling across to France as much as I do it’s very hard to find inspiration for the garden. There may be small oases of gardening magic...
Dismayed In Chelsea
Tune into BBC this week and you won't be able to avoid the Chelsea Flower Show. But for those of us who have seen enough vernacular...
The Sidewalks of Savannah
It’s one of those ecological ironies that Savannah in Georgia, has no savanna at all Your archetypal savanna is a rolling grassland...
The Old Girl On The Train...
As a former beekeeper, there’s nothing I like better than showing off my beekeeping knowledge. When I wrote the National Trust guide to...
The Grumpy Gardening Service
We live in a world where the consumer is king, and so to offer something different in the way of garden maintenance, I’m sorely tempted...
Foxing The Great Escape
After a week away in France I came home and experienced one of those ‘Goldilocks moments’ – who’s been digging in my beds…? There was...
The 'Renegade Late Bulb Planter'
When you move house you face the sad fact that many of your cherished possessions will be left behind, buried in the garden. That nice...
