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I can't be the only one looking for foolproof plants to brighten the patio during summer, but it's always nice to try something a little different too.Traditional summer bedding has its place, but it does demand regular attention.Daily watering

to the back door - the sun catches these new leaves in a brilliant display.By the end of May its bright red seed pods will be developing, their colour matching the bases of the leaf stalks. What more could you ask for? I've been growing it in a large, heavy

featured raised beds planted with nectar plants and companion planting schemes. 'An audience with Mathew Wilson' warmed up the crowd before Jekka McVicar presented a lecture on growing and eating native plants. I wish I could have stayed for the rest

For a short but glorious time in June oriental poppies come into their own, providing flamboyant displays to enliven borders, says Carol Klein.Most gardeners yearn for a splash of glamour, and the most flamboyant of all June's flowers has

at a recent conference, as reported in Horticulture Week, weren't exactly greeted with rapturous applause by some garden centre owners, who felt that I was speaking out of turn by suggesting there's more to displaying plants than simply placing them

, as the four fat balls in one feeder ‘disappeared’ in about three days! I love these feeders that I hang from a branch, and enjoy watching the aeronautical displays of blue tits, starlings and sparrows on the feeders and also the blackbirds, robin, collared

October, and the traditional midsummer floral display seems like a flash in the pan. Where once we threw all the big guns at June and July, you now need a second set of late-flowering plants to see you through September and October.Flowers that peak

ground without forking too badly. Also, straight into the ground go beetroot, spinach and spring onions.To look at my veg garden you'd think I have a rebellious streak. I spent most of last winter digging up my straight 4’x10’ raised beds, in favour