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run) and pachymorphs (which tend to clump). Both forms have specific uses and benefits. Lectomorphs can make a fantastic windbreak or hedge (their running rhizomes can be channelled in a specified direction by sinking concrete slabs either side

which to see various parts of the garden and thirdly (and perhaps most importantly) because they make very good goalposts and things behind which to dodge.I like my garden to be rather chaotic so a well clipped hedge or bit of topiary lends a bit

vegetables also make good additions to the border - asparagus has gorgeous ferny foliage and artichoke flowers are bee magnets(Jerusalem artichokes are, however, excluded due to the possibility of indelicate post-prandial thunderings).Less obvious

that one of the most satisfying things in gardening is a well built, well maintained compost heap, but it is a bit much when people get smug about what is really just a pile of rotting vegetation. I do not claim to be an expert but what we make ends up

Don has a range of individual outfits in corduroy and strong cotton that make him look a bit like a 1930's farmworker hoicking sheaves of corn and eating chunks of strong cheddar. Chris Beardshaw has a range of foul weather gear that would make

growing and, if neglected, can reach about 35 metres high (and five metres wide). This doesn't make for good neighbourly relations.In some circumstances leylandii can make a pretty impressive specimen tree but as a hedge in a small garden

to animals or Bob Flowerdew) is best added to a compost heap.Rabbit droppings are a bit rich for direct application (and lack much in the way of bulk) but make a really good liquid feed if steeped in a bucket of water.If you have a dark cave (or are friends

harmed plants and did no damage to people! I'm not prepared to go that far…My job, when I'm not having a lovely time writing for you lot, is to design and make gardens for people. Sometimes this involves taking untouched or overgrown ground and turning

to be going, here are a few tips - both practical and aesthetic. I was there last week with Joe Swift and Cleve West making a film for the RHS website and we had a chance to do a bit of poking around amongst the show gardens.Tom Stuart Smith is back again

(this is Wales after all), play host to a string quartet on the day. There are also demonstrations of coppicing, charcoal burning and yurt building. This is a two-day opening, on 11-12 June.Many villages combine their gardens in order to make a proper