January may seem the most unlikely time to embrace the garden, but a successful garden never sleeps and there are plenty of fun and easy jobs that can...

Christmas is nearly upon us, and although the light is at it's lowest and the weather is often grey, there is nothing nicer than sitting inside cosy a...

We have plants, you have time, come to our shop, it's now all online.To protect the safety of both our customers and our staff, and in line with gover...

The beautiful, sweetly scented Lily of the Valley is a native flower, preferring  partial shade with fertile, well-drained, soil. Despite its del...

The cherries are coming into blossom now and it’s a glorious sight, worth stopping for a moment and marvelling at how spring sunshine, blue skies and ...

One of the many pleasures of visiting the South of France in late winter is to walk amongst the Mimosa trees and feel that uplift of the heart from th...

This beautiful little primrose, saddled with such an unwieldy name, comes from the eastern Mediterranean and Balkans, and is a subspecies of our nativ...

The skies all around are grey and dismal, and the ground is heavy and sodden.  But I look down and see that the promise of a new year is unfoldin...

In the autumn of 1994 David Noble, an Australian park ranger, was abseiling down one of the many otherwise impenetrable canyons in the Wollemi Nationa...

I’m quite excited to be writing about one of my favourite plants – Cyclamen hederifolium, although I have a strong suspicion that my choice changes fa...