In a mature garden, brambles are a perpetual menace and need regular late-winter campaigns to keep them at bay. Self-sown into a hedge bottom, they assume heroic proportions before the unwelcome evidence presents itself.
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Don suitable gear, get to the base of the brute with spade and trowel, and remove the rootstock. Then, cut up the awkward, reverse-spined wands into handy lengths, haul them out, fold them up and add them to the bonfire. You'll earn your tea and cake.
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
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An utterly charming island home in Scotland with gardens so beautiful they made the cover of Country LifeAn Cala on the Isle of Seil has a fascinating history that is only enhanced by its amazing setting.
