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. After two or more extremely dry years, many areas had drought orders imposed on them last April, with hosepipe bans for millions of gardeners. Then the heavens opened and it’s been deluge after deluge ever since.I woke on Sunday morning to find a large

When a letter starts "I must strongly protest at an article written by Adam Pasco…" then I do wonder what I've done wrong.Let me set the scene. You can't find much more of a bird lover than me. Just take a look at my garden, and the way I garden

the garden. It's a bit 'pot luck', but then that's the fun of gardening. If I really wanted to maximise my returns I could collect seed by hand, picking off the pods at the moment they split, but before they've dropped their cargo. Kept on a sheet

by our seasons.Any late-flying insects in the garden aren't complaining though. When the sun shone last weekend these white globes of bloom attracted insects from far and wide. I can't say the most desirable insects were among them (in fact there were

Has the snow been a good or bad thing for our gardens? Well, probably a bit of both, but I do live in hope that the cold weather has helped kill off a few garden pests. We've all had our fair share of snow over the past couple of weeks, with varying

When did you last lift and divide congested clumps of perennial flowers in your garden? You're not alone if you're struggling to remember, as this is a job I often overlook too.Hardy perennials just do their thing year after year, and I don't give

eye on the weather forecast, and a few very large sheets of white fleece close at hand. When frost is forecast, I go out the evening before to cover all the flowers I can reach. I wrap the fleece around branches, drape it over fan-trained fruits

to about 75cm (30in) the large, mainly double flowers open first at the tip of the main shoot. Once these fade and are snipped away, further flowers develop in succession on side shoots.This new variety has very long-lasting flowers that I've enjoyed

Summer may have started late following the June drenching, but it hasn't been a complete washout. One star performer in my garden has been a wonderful new osteospermum. I haven't grown them for a few years, but Osteospermum Sunny Philip caught my

What a superb spring it's been so far for camellias. The mild March weather has produced some colourful displays of camellias in my garden. In fact, I think they're the best I've enjoyed for many, many years.My camellias are grown in three distinct