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. Many people will have received digital cameras from Santa and will soon discover how unbelievably useful they can be. See a plant you like in a friend's garden? Click. See a spectacular border? Click. Notice a great combination at a flower show? Click

-to-earth show, and still jam packed with fantastic nurseries selling mountains of plants, as well as inspirational gardens and lots of chances to get advice from knowledgeable people.I have been lucky enough to have a quick wander around the show before

, Scotland and Iceland looking for new plants. His Florilegium was eventually published between 1980-1990 and took up 35 whopping great volumes.He will be remembered by gardeners not only for the work he did setting up Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, but also

hedgehog makes it into my garden at night, and they love to feed on slugs.However, gardeners who treasure their hostas (and other plants) know all too well just how much damage slugs and snails can do at night. I'm keen to garden without resorting

square hole lined with mirrors and beautifully planted. The mirrors gave the illusion of never ending planting stretching way back underground. It was designed by Rebecca Butterworth, Victoria Pustygina and Ludovica Gianneschi.Tony Smith's second garden

, definitely be something local to you.For example, if you are in Dorset this coming weekend the Dorset Gardens Trust is taking over Chideock Manor for the day. There will be specialist plant stalls, flower arranging, cakes and a very distinguished team

of soil, what hard landscaping, which plants etc etcOn the day before the judging the gardens are visited by a team of assessors. They minutely examine the garden and award points in five categories; whether the brief has been realised, impact, design

Just in case you have been in a surgically induced coma or trekking up hidden valleys amongst deep jungle, I must remind you that this is Chelsea Flower Show week. Garden designers, nurserymen and builders have been beavering away in the grounds

discovered cacti at university. It wasn't long before I had a flat full of plants and an allotment of my own to play with.I couldn't live without gardening - it makes me feel whole. If I'm tired, stressed, unhappy, I garden to feel better. I get up early

first because I want them to flower this year.Yesterday, the first fat-leaved seedlings of Gaura lindheimeri 'The Bride' emerged. I felt excited all day. These first seedlings are particularly precious, since gaura is one of my all-time favourite plants