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, which is basically Joe Swift, Cleve West and I messing around with plants and stuff. There are four episodes on YouTube now and we hope to make more.

money for charity.My friend Joe Swift is the president of the NGS, but I suppose not every organisation is perfect. We did however manage to get him away long enough to make this. It may be too late for Valentine's Day when you read this, but I think you

bee buzzing around the place - the door is open as the afternoon is sunny. For some extraordinary reason he seems to prefer to be in here amongst the paperclips and whatever gamma rays are emitted by computers rather than whizzing around making use

and years and then I go twice in five days.) The fields there are very green and very well cropped. This is due to the hundreds of sheep.Cows make quite a mess of fields because, firstly and most obviously, they are heavier than sheep. Secondly they tend

to the public. In particular Coton Manor in Northamptonshire, Arlington in East Sussex, Yoxall Lodge in Staffordshire. Also the National Trust is pretty hot on bluebell woods.Wherever you decide to go: go soon as this hot weather is making things grow much

notice, made a garden of bosomy turf hummocks and smoking chimneys.9. Tickets are still available either at the gate or online.10. Enough, I think. Go and see for yourselves.PS I am also now the newest (and I think possibly the youngest which makes a very

or power tools. However, pumpkins do make a very satisfactory glowing lantern.I prefer to eat pumpkins, though. I don’t like pumpkin pie, which is a sweet and sickly item with the texture of polyfilla, only just improved by the application of lots of cream

reading the paper - becomes more important than making decisions about where to plant bulbs. Silly really, but there you go.Fortunately, all is not lost. A good healthy tulip (by which I mean a bulb that is about the size of an egg and is firm of flesh

apples that we grow for fruit today come from grafted stock because apple trees grown from seeds will, almost always, taste sour enough to scour the enamel from your teeth. However, and this is the point, they will make darn good cider. Perfectly

- Parrotia persica (Persian ironwood). Its flowers are always a surprise; tiny, deep red threads that seem to slowly push out their buds like hermit crabs squeezing from their shells. Parrotia is part of the witchazel family and makes a very spectacular small