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is transformed and comes alive. This is because the stems are suffused with a blush of red and the berries are truly spectacular. They are the shape of turbans and gradually transform themselves from bean green to the colour of burnished Ribena. Sadly

In East Dulwich, this year, the garden ornament of choice is ... the animal skull. Now this might seem a little macabre, but I find something rather aesthetically pleasing in the form, shape and texture of old bones.It all started several years ago

What a glorious week it has been (with apologies to those in other places who have had torrential rain/snow/hailstones the size of gulls eggs/unseasonal drought etc).Every morning at about 7:15 we walk around the fields - with such clear skies

will already have bought their bulbs. I may be too late to help this year but these are my top tulips. To be perfectly accurate these are some of my top tulips as there are too many to fit in here. Tulipa 'White Triumphator' - the shape and colour of angels T

-flavoured toffee without quite so much guilt as from the real thing!!The slips went in in two batches, the first towards the end of May. This year I grew Jetfire and Beauregard. The pretty, scrambling heart shaped leaves, occasionally topped with morning

(felt pen tends to run). The cress hair should appear within a week.For the grass heads, use old tights, cut in to 20cm lengths. Tie each one in a knot at one end and add a teaspoonful of grass seed. Then cram the tights full with sawdust, so the tights

, but that needn't be the case. Yes, it's great to have a classically shaped tree, but there are plenty of other options if space is short. Fans, espaliers, simple cordons and step-overs can all be pretty productive and look gorgeous at this time of year. They also

in size and shape of the tubers was extreme. There were two tubers which stood out from all the rest. The first, held aloft by a grinning 10-year-old, weighed in at a full 750g and was ear-marked for slicing and frying. I was sure it would win a prize

, using railway sleepers, three high (about 50 cm), to make a raised water body. Triangular in shape, 2 metres long, with a deep corner dug down a further 50 cm and a shallow corner for marginal plants. Three species of damselfly, two species of dragonfly

eye at a local plant centre, its spoon-shaped petals infused with steely blue crying out for closer inspection. Three plants were soon at home in a large terracotta pot, positioned in a hot spot on my patio. Since June they've bloomed non