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for various clients. If you have not yet ordered then get your skates on as they are best bought at this time of year for winter planting. As were all plants until relatively recently - nurserymen dug up and split plants and then sent them out wrapped in paper

to wrap their long tongues around clumps of grass and pull. Thirdly (please look away if you are of delicate sensitivity) cowpats are larger and wetter than neatly packaged sheep droppings. Also hill pastures (being hilly) drain better.But if you were

.Most of you will be terribly well organised and will have bought environmentally immaculate Christmas presents well in advance. They will be wrapped and labelled and hidden on the top shelf of the airing cupboard - at least that is where my mother hid them

and sour-tasting berries. This latter is the more famous tree, however, because (as every schoolchild knows) it provides about the only food that a silkworm will tolerate. The grubs feed on the mulberry leaves before wrapping themselves into cocoons made

wherever I look it will be easy to find. Those paper wrapped packages can, however, turn into a terrible tangle if you pull the wrong end or they get too wet, so I put them in old coffee tins with holes drilled in their lids. The loose end protrudes and any

The last few days before Christmas have different effects on different people. Some are smugly satisfied as all presents have been bought and wrapped, turkeys and other Christmassy foods have been ordered and it is their sister’s turn to entertain

Over the past few weeks we have been wrapped up in a flurry of tree planting. It is the very tail end of the planting season and, as I am mostly pretty disorganised, things that should have been done earlier in the season are being done now

and there are flurries of snow whipping off the roofs, and a rather disgruntled chicken is scuffling about like a well-wrapped babushka haggling in a street market in Minsk.Gardeners are obsessed with weather. It’s often too dry, too wet, too cold, too hot, not snowy