Anyone who loves gardening will understand the excitement of flicking through seed catalogues over the winter months and envisaging the swathes of plants and flowers — that will follow. Or maybe veg are more your thing? Opening a seed catalogue is like opening a magic door; transporting you from the cold grey days of winter […]

A trip worth making… I was fortunate enough to be on the steering committee of Flowers from the Farm, over the past year. So, for selfish reasons, I was kicking myself that we had decided to hold the annual conference just north of Nottingham! By the end of the conference, as Bek and I headed

As autumn leaves and colours give way to a crisper, more wintry feel our attention turns to seasonal ingredients for our wreaths – and festive foraging. We love showing people how to create a plastic-free, festive wreath using our home-grown willow and an abundance of winter foliage – but there’s still room for a bit

For any of you following the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on the BBC, you may have heard Monty Don and Joe Swift talking about the Chelsea Chop. Even if you missed it, you will no doubt have heard the term used by gardeners. The Chelsea Chop took its name from a gardening technique that has

I am the daughter of an apple grower and with my lovely siblings, spent my school holidays working on the farm. I spent my winters pruning thousands of apple and pear trees and learnt about the complexity of achieving balance to encourage the tree to produce a good crop of apples each year. As each