It’s March already and spring is around the corner, along with longer days, after the clocks go forward at the end of the ...

Summer gardens brim with romance, but winter offers a different kind of charm. From February onwards, you can discover dazzling water features, tranquil woodland wanders, and the delicate beauty of ...

At a glance, the courtyard in Diane Keaton's Spanish-inspired home seems a million years apart from my tiny city patio. Naturally, its scale puts my urban retreat to shame, but after some thinking, ...

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A garden in Leeds designed to require minimal or zero watering is "flourishing" in the recent heatwaves, according to its manager. Water levels at reservoirs in Yorkshire are at a historic August low ...

All gardens occasionally benefit from a substantial work-over. In today’s column, I describe such a project in my garden. In brief, the project basically involves exchanging two groups of plants.

Stuffing them full of tulips, crocus and muscari will give your garden an abundance of sustainable prettiness Recently, my garden fantasies have extended to a table. Specifically, one of those ...

The first day of spring is just days away - the time when the garden starts to come back to life. Plants that have been dormant over winter start to bud, and green shoots begin to appear, heralding ...

Five years ago my mother moved from a semi-detached house in the suburbs to an apartment complex near the city. At home she’d had front and back gardens. Now she’s very happily downsized to a smallish ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We focused recently on whether to prune trees and shrubs in January or wait until late winter/early spring. This decision is based on the plant’s bloom time.