Search - Articles

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

then you can assume that I've made a ghastly mistake and am trying to hide the outcome. If nothing else, the prunings make good compost.If you want to see what my garden looked like a month ago then tune in to Gardeners' World on BBC2 this Friday (1 August

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

last week). It is a good moment to look back on the triumphs and disasters in our gardens and to make notes, so that we do not make the same mistakes again.Allow me to share a few of my best mess-ups of 2010.My first is a mistake I did make last year

- very striking swollen nodes on the culms. Only small at 1.5m with arching foliage.Fargesia murieliae - forms dense, arching clumps of very leafy canes. Spectacular on a terrace where the rustling and swaying becomes more mesmerising