Angela Stanton - my garden in spring

Angela Stanton - my garden in spring

In spring, our garden starts coming back to life.  The lawn greens up, fruit trees begin to bud, and everything feels fresher.  The greenhouse fills with seedlings, and the allotment beyond starts taking shape for the season.  Birds are everywhere, and it finally feels like growing season is here again.


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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