If you have a sunny south or west-facing windowsill there are certain houseplants that will love direct sunlight. They actually need it to grow well. Choose plants that hail from desert habitats, such ...

Your local authority will often arrange curbside collections and/or drop-off points in early January. Check your local authority website for more information. If you bought your tree from a plant ...

2025 is here. Another incredible growing season will soon be with us. The first day for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere is Thursday the 20 th of March, so mark your calendars. It’s a busy year ...

If you love a G&T you’ll love this evergreen shrub as its leaves and flowers smell of gin and tonic! Hailing from Australia, it’s a tender, evergreen shrub. And so should be grown in a warm, ...

The benefits of indoor gardening have been well documented, you can see many of the reasons in my book My Houseplant Changed My Life. Another incredible ability of some houseplants is that they can ...

Galanthus, or snowdrops, are among the first flowers of the year and always popular with gardeners. They seem to mark a crossover between winter and spring, poking up through the dormant ground in ...

I write regular guest blogs for Pavestone, one the UK’s producers of high-quality patio and garden finishing’s. In these blogs I use my knowledge of horticulture, landscaping, and design to illustrate ...

The year is drawing to a close this month, with plenty of festivities to look forward to at the end of December and the start of 2025. I’m really excited to tell you that my new book, ‘Plants with ...