Hannah Greenshields - my garden in spring

Hannah Greenshields - my garden in spring

I love Spring- the season of hope! We live in the North of England so we’ve had snowdrops, pulmonaria and hellebores brightening the garden and now we have the joy of the vivid yellow of daffodils starting to open, and the fragrance of the flowering currant which is full of the sound of happy bees.


Modern heroes of horticulture - Roz Chandler

Roz Chandler didn’t grow up knowing she would become a flower farmer.  In fact, when she first moved to a five-acre smallholding near Milton Keynes in 2007, it was livestock,...
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Garden gadgets - leaf grabbers

These have got to be one of the most useful and yet inexpensive bits of kit for the gardener at this time of year, when raking is a weekly, if...
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Greener gardening - install a water butt

The weather may be turning, but think back to just a few weeks ago when repeated heatwaves left our gardens wilting.  Hosepipe bans are becoming a frequent occurrence in many...
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