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To continue my (very) occasional series about interesting gardeners: have you ever heard of Johnny Appleseed? He is one of the folk heroes of American horticulture and has been immortalised not only in books but also in a song by the late, great Joe

A long, long time ago when I first started writing a blog for gardenersworld.com, I wrote about the French naturalist, Philibert Commerson. It was, I stated at the time, episode one of an occasional series about interesting gardeners. I hadn

comprising entirely of edible fungi: more interestingly all the action is underground and only visible through a series of periscopes.2. Jon Wheatley and Anita Foy's vast show feature, the RHS Edible Garden. This includes fruit and nut orchards, wild plants

by Northwest, when Cary Grant was pursued by a menacing yellow aeroplane). In Britain, arsenate of lead was mostly used to control codling moths on fruit trees, although it was doubtless very tempting to any gardeners stricken with homicidal yearnings

March is not really prime garden visiting time: a few gardens with specialist collections are open for the wonderful National Gardens Scheme, but most of them are keeping their powder dry in readiness for spring and summer.However, gardeners still

New Year’s Eve. A defining moment, the joys and traumas of Christmas behind us and the blank page of 2013 stretching ahead like a freshly hoovered carpet. The question is whether, for us gardeners, that carpet will be lush shag pile or meagrely

.Legend has it that the best grape vines should be planted on top of the buried corpse of a horse (or a sheep if you are short of horses). Fruit trees grow well if a dead chicken is included in the hole. Hamsters, guinea pigs and budgies will also work well

-rooted trees - last chance motel, ladies and gents. (ix) Prune fruit trees - done most of them but have a few to finish off. (x) Find and plant something to plug the gap in the borders where I dug out a veronicastrum in a fit of pique.Better stop writing

January already: Christmas neatly tucked away and another year of fabulous gardening stretching away ahead of us. The beginning of the year is the time for fresh starts and change but, rather than pestering you with annoying resolutions which few