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and it provides a wonderful backdrop to the rest of the garden. It has long, thin silver leaves as elegant as a dancer's fingers. It also grows as a sort of multi-stemmed thicket that can easily be thinned out to prevent it becoming too dense.However, it does

that we can do for the trees. Around this time of year it's a good idea to thin the fruit again by hand to stop them bumping against each other - this can cause bruising, followed by rot, which can easily spread from one apple to its neighbour. Hence

by the time May comes along I am sick to the back teeth of ruddy yellow. We have been flooded by daffodils in every shape - short, tall, fat, thin etc - but every single one is yellow (yes, I know that some are creamy white but they are still tainted

There are few things as dreary as other people's holiday pictures and I am fully aware that I am skating on very, very thin ice by blogging about my holiday two weeks in succession, but…I really wanted to write about the biggest garden on the Isle

of long thin borders (I wrote about its birth about a year and a half ago). Some of the beds have worked really well, I think, like this arrangement of Phlomis amazone and Seseli libanotis. The central part, surrounding a pond, has some wonderful grass

.Semiarundinaria yashadake 'Kimmei' – lots and lots of thin yellow canes with narrow green stripes. 2.5m highThe following are clump-formers:Thamnocalamus crassinoides 'Merlyn' - graceful 4m-high, blue-stemmed plant with tiny leaves. Perfect for the smaller garden