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It's January. The weather outside is pretty ghastly. There is not an enormous amount in the garden worth looking at so we must be more imaginative when seeking out our horticultural pleasures.Often the mundane can be very beautiful if you look hard

Do you have an autumn clear-up in your garden? Do you cut down all your herbaceous stuff so that everything is tidy for the winter or do you leave everything until the new year? Most people nowadays leave it until later to give food for small birds

on such small bits of card!Another is a series of fifty garden flowers ranging from delphiniums and water lilies to annuals like bright red salvias and candytuft. Each card has a bit of information and some hints about cultivation written by Richard Sudell - who

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

of muffled hens while others are as small and delicate as the eyelashes of newborn babies. Some flower in May and others in July. Which one should you choose? How do we know which are the best, most reliable plants? It can get a bit confusing, especially when

an extraordinary topiary garden with massive yews clipped into extraordinary shapes - top hats, arches, crowns, eggs, birds, Bobby Charlton's combover etc, etc. I filmed there once (for Small Town Gardens) and the head gardener gave us two top tips: always spray

of the world cope. There are a few small speed bumps on the road to understanding - a little like the journey to enlightenment.I am recently returned from seeing a client in Russia and, although the basic principles of garden design remain pretty much the same

Although the time for roses is long past they can be remarkably resilient. Here we are at the beginning of December and I have two flowering in my garden at the moment - Rosa 'The Prince' and R. Moonlight. It is true that neither bloom is much

it cuts down your planting space. This is particularly important in a small garden.Don’t attach the panels to the posts until the concrete is properly dry.There are a number of different sorts of wooden fence. The most readily available are larchlap panel

tree.Always place these scented plants by doors or pathways - there is no point having something like this flowering its little heart out in some corner of the garden that is never visited in wintertime. All of them have small flowers but who needs