Could I make the case that you make gardening your go-to pastime for your own health and wellbeing? Perhaps you could set yourself the challenge of taking your first .....

Whenever there are rainy days on the menu, my thoughts turn to doing some more seed sowing. I’ve got a number of packets that my dear friend Matt Biggs .....

I’m always shocked to see the skeletal remains of Christmas trees on the streets of towns and cities after Twelfth Night. It seems all the more poignant when you consider .....

A walk around any garden centre at this time of year will reveal a number of variegated, evergreen shrubs and perennials that catch the eye. And on a recent .....

Many gardeners seem to have an in-built tidiness gene and go out armed with the secateurs to chop back things that they think look messy. This not only leaves .....

Flies aren’t much of a nuisance in the UK at this time of year, but in the summer we seem to get more than our fair share buzzing around .....

We tend to take trees for granted in our garden, parks and countryside. And in winter, devoid of leaves, you may pay them even less attention. But outlined against a bright blue .....