Joy Hsu - my garden in spring

Joy Hsu - my garden in spring

I am lucky to be looking after a Kate Gould designed garden in North West London where in early Spring a richly coloured Hammamelis with it's orangey fringed flowers and burgundy coloured centre sits beautifully next to the plummy shades of a Loropetalum - a gorgeous pairing!

 


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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