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only a minimal distance) is probably only relevant to those 88% with larger gardens outside large urban centres, but the other (delay cutting until late winter) is already finding favour in my garden. Although we did a bit of trimming earlier

has been trimmed down to look like a giant hedgehog and the sycamore seedlings sprouting from the lawn show that we were once overshadowed by trees now reduced to inglorious stumps.But, no matter, we're here for the fine sea views, the quiet solitude

A few weeks ago, I was rather disparaging about some gardens local to me, which are so immaculately laid out, so minimalist, and so trimmed, that they are all but devoid of wildlife. I now intend to take my anti-gardening stance further (this may

The fabulous fine weather of Sunday saw me in the garden trimming back a rose bush that was reaching threateningly across the path at head height. Suddenly something other than a branch of thorns caught my eye - a dark flitting creature an inch long

trimmed to within an inch of its wildlife. There are quite a few hereabouts in East Dulwich. They are so neat and manicured, so ordered, so precisely laid out and clipped to the millimetre, that I think wildlife would probably be enhanced if they used