Mark Gregory, the 'King of Chelsea', on how to create a garden whose plants taste as good as they look
Five-times Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist Mark Gregory recommends plants to grow in your garden that look as good as they taste.
Five-times Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist Mark Gregory recommends plants to grow in your garden that look as good as they taste.
An abundance might sound like success for a gardener, but if you're growing crops at home to supply your own needs, then little and often is a much better aim. Mark Diacono explains.
Clearing out plants is not for the faint-hearted, but Anna Pavord shares her hard-won tips.
Alan Titchmarsh admits that the plants that give him most pleasure aren't always the ones he's intended to grow.
Charles Quest-Ritson takes a look at the incomparable hepaticas of John Massey.
The phrase 'Spring is a new beginning’ may be a touch trite for today’s tastes, says Alan Titchmarsh, but it is 'a phrase that invades my mind each and every March'.
Mark Diacono makes a case for blackcurrants being one of the best — and simplest — fruits to grow in your garden.
The gardener and writer Anna Pavrod on the joy of rediscovery that is spring.
Nothing beats the flavour of homegrown tomatoes, whether you like them large and meaty or tiny and juicy. Mark Diacono has the lowdown on how to do it and which varieties to choose.
Once, there were just four types of wild citrus, but farmers and gardeners over the centuries have selected for wonderful variety and abundance, says Charles Quest-Ritson.
Nothing beats homegrown flowers for beauty, variety and scent. Tiffany Daneff asks three British growers for the best advice on starting your own cutting garden.
The exotic snake’s-head fritillary is the only British native of 130 bulbs in this fascinating family, many of which deserve a place in the garden. John Hoyland, garden adviser at Glyndebourne in East Sussex, recommends the best and shares tips on how to grow them, with additional tips from botanical artist and Fritillaria specialist Laurence Hill.
Charles Quest-Ritson is man who literally wrote the book on roses — several of them, actually — but he'll openly concede that his best efforts in Hampshire are as nothing compared to the best Australia has to offer.
If you are new to foraging, wild garlic is the ideal place to start says Mark Diacono.
Charles Quest-Ritson tells the tale of a snowdrop that proved a painfully elusive wintry delight.
Mark Diacono on Martin Crawford, the man who has inspired him for decades.
Keeping on top of the gardening jobs can be daunting, and it's all too easy to let things slide in one area or another for a month or two.