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Last weekend I finally broke my winter gardening fast, clearing the borders, cutting down old stems, dividing and replanting. Curled up on the soil surface I found several caterpillars. These had presumably been overwintering under a nice blanket

What should you get the gardener in your life for Christmas? Another pair of secateurs? Some garden twine? A box marked ‘Seeds’, for storing seeds?We gardeners are a fussy bunch, but – if you get it right – you can buy meaningful gifts

the valuable work many garden centres do to support their local communities.Whether for commercial reasons, altruistic ones, or a bit of both, it’s great to see the staff and customers of garden centres participating in a varied range of projects

Like James Alexander-Sinclair, I too am giving my garden a bit of a design ‘refresh’ this year. As the bare bones of the plot begin to show themselves (we still haven’t had much frost), I can see, once again, what my four- by four-metre space lacks

Last weekend was the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. The idea was simple: spend an hour in the garden, or local park, sometime over the weekend, and input what birds you saw at the RSPB website.   This was not an arduous task for me. Between 10am

Gardeners are relatively undemanding and pretty easy to keep amused. When we're not gardening we like nothing more than visiting other gardens (or nurseries/shows/plant sales etc). And when it's too dark (or perishing cold) to garden we like to read

.It has, as I'm sure you've noticed, been a bit cold over Christmas — like a proper winter. The ground is too hard and the east wind too ticklish for relaxed gardening, but there is still great pleasure to be had from looking at and photographing gardens

What makes us take up gardening? Are there really such things as green fingers? Are we born with the desire to tend our plots or does the passion for gardening come with age, or by accident? So much depends on whether the opportunity

Some of you might remember that Gardeners' World did a bit of filming in my garden last year. Anyway, I thought it would be briefly interesting to revisit the bit of planting I redid for their benefit to see how it is getting on a year or so later

What an amazing fortnight I've had, cruising right round the British Isles in the company of over 300 gardeners, and visiting great gardens along the way. The Gardeners' World Magazine 20th Anniversary Cruise was a great success, with experts Pippa