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Theatre so drop by and say hello. I am joined by such luminaries as Monty Don, Joe Swift, Carol Klein, Pippa Greenwood and Adam Pasco. Come and get your questions answered.

an old barn that doubles as storage and tool shed (it also served as a fine film studio the other day when Joe Swift, Cleve west and I recorded our Christmas message).Often the tools are in a muddy heap and I enjoy spending an hour or so hanging them up

to be going, here are a few tips - both practical and aesthetic. I was there last week with Joe Swift and Cleve West making a film for the RHS website and we had a chance to do a bit of poking around amongst the show gardens.Tom Stuart Smith is back again

A few weeks ago, I suffered what swiftly became my most painful gardening injury to date: I stubbed my toe on a tasteless garden ornament. (It wasn't mine, I was helping out at a friend's garden.) Within seconds I knew this was no ordinary toe

. When you see Monty in action you know that if you follow his example you too will be successful.There are changes to the presenter line-up too, with Rachel De Thame joining Carol Klein and Joe Swift. What a team! It’s a perfect balance of passion

show runs from Thursday to Sunday and tickets are available. As an added incentive (of sorts) I am in the theatre there talking to a varied and exciting lineup of guests including Matthew Wilson, Joe Swift, Chris Beardshaw and Mike Dilger (from the One

’s some of the crashes that are most worrying: the cuckoo down 49 per cent, swift down 38 per cent, kingfisher down 33 per cent. What’s going on out there?The report, unlike much of the media coverage, is loath to point any fingers, and with some birds

tits, coal tits, house sparrows and robins. Indeed, provision of nest boxes may even bolster declining populations of swifts, house martins, house sparrows and starlings. The key to success is to use untreated wood, as any chemicals can leach

Pippin, and lastly my favourite, late-season 'Spartan', which is absolutely delicious.At some point during this time, Lucy turns up with buckets of 'Bramley'. These are swiftly gathered by colleagues and taken home, mainly to be turned into crumble

’s not theirs. Cuckoos were swiftly dumped in the ‘magpie’ category of birds and not given a further thought.Now I’m grown, I’ve got over the barbaric way cuckoos enter the world and have learned to love them (I'm more tolerant of magpies, too). Each summer I