Plants & Planting

You love the idea of a garden that looks good. You do not love the idea of spending every Saturday on your knees pulling weeds, deadheading roses, and…

Every garden has that corner. The one behind the shed, the strip along the north-facing fence, the bed under the mature oak where grass refuses to grow and everything you…

There’s a particular kind of joy in seeing the first crocuses push through frozen soil in February. You planted them months ago, forgot about them entirely, and then one morning…

You bought a climbing rose last spring, stuck a bamboo cane next to it, and watched the whole thing flop sideways within a month. Or maybe your sweet peas looked…

It’s late February, the garden looks like a crime scene of soggy leaves and brown stems, and you know you should be “preparing for spring” but the specifics are vague.…

It’s mid-April, the garden is looking brilliant after weeks of patient planting, and then the weather app shows a frost warning for tonight. You’ve got tender courgette seedlings just hardened…

You’ve just moved into a place with a proper garden for the first time — maybe a new-build with a rectangle of turf, or a Victorian terrace with…

You’ve just spent £1.50 on a pot of basil from Tesco, placed it on the kitchen windowsill, watered it diligently, and watched it die within ten days. Again. It happens…

It’s late February, your kitchen windowsill is crammed with yoghurt pots of compost, cling film is doing a terrible job of keeping moisture in, and half your tomato seeds haven’t…