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I have a question for you, one that my wife came up with recently while we were mooching around the garden. Imagine, if you will, that one sunny morning you are suddenly plucked from your existing garden and plonked into a new one. The transfer

tomatoes against a sunny fence, then part of a flower border and before you know it the garden is disappearing under a tsunami of produce. The next step is either to invade your neighbours' gardens (not something that is generally encouraged) or to find

want somewhere to go especially when it is dry and sunny. One if the best places at this time of year is the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in Surrey. To be honest the garden has some flaws but, if you want somewhere to spend a very

jam) and watched the ladybirds stumbling around like the bride's uncle at a wedding reception. I also wandered off to the vegetable garden and sneered at the caterpillars on the kale leaves.And now, as I sit here in my office there is a large and noisy

I have spent the last week on the small, but unbelievably beautiful, island of Colonsay off the west coast of Scotland. I apologise to those of you in the midlands who have been braving flash floods but the weather here has been stunning. Long sunny

At this time of year garden magazines and blogs are chock full of articles about snowdrops. Even Adam Pasco has written one and it takes a lot for our sainted editor to stir himself from his Caribbean hideaway at this time of year. However

to talk about them, but instead about the less well-known and less appreciated perennial sweet pea, Lathyrus latifolius. In a village near here it has colonised the sunny side of an old hedge, where it scrambles through the undergrowth and spills down a

What's in your shed? If it's anything like mine it will contain some (or all) of the following: tools (some hanging from nails, some lying around on the floor), mowers, plant pots, deckchairs waiting for a sunny day, three bicycles with flat tyres

quite dramatically.So that is what I am doing on this sunny Monday. Hopefully, many of you will come along to the show and see if you agree with our decisions.(The picture, by the way, is of last year's winning Conceptual Garden, It's Hard To See

've resisted burning much in the way of garden refuse as I compost everything I can.Once a year I rent a great big shredder for a weekend and the peace of the countryside is completely disrupted as I spend a couple of happy days half-deafened and covered