Celebrating the growth of great women gardeners
Women have been overlooked by the predominantly male gardening establishment for centuries, unacknowledged for their work on magnificent estates, banned from horticultural colleges and u...
Women have been overlooked by the predominantly male gardening establishment for centuries, unacknowledged for their work on magnificent estates, banned from horticultural colleges and u...
Plants and fashion have been linked for millennia. Plants give us natural fibres for fabrics: cotton, bamboo, linen from flax are obvious examples – less obvious is the nettle family, which g...
Hooray! The That’s Not My Age podcast is back (after a longer than intended, six-month hiatus) with a special Christmas episode.
My guest on today’s podcast is the wonderful garden designer, writer and TV presenter, Arit Anderson. Who I’m sure you recognise from BBC Gardener’s World and Garden ...
This spring, the global pandemic prompted record numbers of people to plant for the first time. Whether it was the fear of global food shortages or to stave off lockdown boredom, most we...
As with what you wear, in the garden you have to work with what you’ve got: size and shape, the basic framework, classic pieces, like evergreens, that earn their place all year round. But to these b...
It’s not quite as quick and easy to give your garden a fresh look as it is to update an outfit, but if you approach it like wearing an old favourite (your existing garden) with different acce...
As with catwalk fashion, garden design is taken to the extreme at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (remember Diarmuid Gavin’s twirling trees last year?), writes Adrienne Wyper.