Search - Articles

I'm not ashamed to admit that I like dandelions. I think their flowers are beautiful, their leaves and form attractive (indeed considerably more so than many so-called ornamentals) and hoverflies seem to like them too.They can be a pain when

Gardeners' World Live is not, and has no desire to be, like the Chelsea Flower Show. There are no enormously expensive show gardens, no conspicuous champagne consumption and very few people wearing flowery hats.Instead it is a much more down

a very pretty white flower. However, all this is about to change as, my friend Cleve West will be forgoing his Christmas dinner, in order that his parsnips are flowering in time to be included in the Chelsea Flower Show garden he is designing

to plug gaps elsewhere.Favourite self-seeders in my garden include foxgloves, hellebores, honesty, scabious, Alchemilla mollis, calendula, nigella, nasturtiums, and even crops like rocket and chives. I wonder which flowers others find self

In the current climate of price rises and frozen salaries we're all looking for ways to save money. Fortunately, many garden plants help us to cut costs by producing new seed for free. All we have to do is spot the opportunities, then collect

to be heaving with lush foliage and beautiful flowers - but it's the simple sight of something emerging from bare soil or a lone bee on a crocus in February that really lifts my spirits.While snowdrop days at Chelsea Physic Garden are over for another year

flowers. Some of those flowers must have been monarda.It's curious how plants – particularly scented ones – can trigger memories. I have an almost encyclopedic memory of everything that grew in the garden of my early years, even if I can't name it all. I

As someone who is potty about wildlife gardening, I was more than a little happy to learn that biodiversity was the central theme at this year's Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Between now and Sunday there's plenty to keep gardeners and wildlife

-by. In most situations this will be lovely, but in order to plant the tulips, the Hackney guerrilla gardeners ripped out a fair amount of established, flowering ivy.Tulip lovers might argue that ivy is not very cheerful, pretty or colourful, but its value

first because I want them to flower this year.Yesterday, the first fat-leaved seedlings of Gaura lindheimeri 'The Bride' emerged. I felt excited all day. These first seedlings are particularly precious, since gaura is one of my all-time favourite plants