Green Fingers: Crafting Wreaths and Garlands

Create a warm welcome for guests this Christmas with scented wreaths and garlands decorated with the rich colours of the season and old world charm.Read

Green Fingers: Heady Hyacinths

‘If hyacinth scent is cloying, I am perfectly happy to be cloyed’ admitted the late charismatic plantsman Christopher Lloyd back in 1970 amongst the informative pages of his ‘Well-Tempered Garden’.Read

Green Fingers: Senses Series

The best gardens appeal to our senses on many levels, including one that is rarely considered when planning a garden – SOUND.Read

Green Fingers: 'Trendy Bamboo'

Heralded as the newest and hottest sustainable eco-fabric, bamboo has recently been turning the heads of fashion designers and gardeners alike, for its gentle softness and smooth, flowing drape both in and out of the garden.Read

Green Fingers: 'Smashing Pumpkins’

Spooks, ghouls, ghosts and goblins….but how would Halloween haunt without pumpkins and Jack-o’-lanterns?Read

Green Fingers: Heuchera: The changing face of a legend

In the 1980’s, a lush foliage plant appeared that was to change the face of gardening tradition – its name was ‘Palace Purple’.Read

Green Fingers: Autumn - the natural time for planting

This is a great time of year for planting all kinds of deciduous trees, shrubs, hedges and climbers -as well as fruit trees, bushes, espaliers, cordons and fans.Read

Green Fingers: Anemones: Sea farers or flower favourites

Literals among us may be wrestling with images of tentacled sea creatures stranded in autumnal flower borders, but Japanese Anemones (not ‘Finding Nemo’ friends) are quite a different kettle of fish.Read

Spring flowering bulbs - an artist's palette

Today sees the start of our new, weekly gardening column. Read Chris Roberts, managing director of Van Hage garden company to get your own little eden in shape.Read

Green Fingers: Crafting Wreaths and Garlands

Create a warm welcome for guests this Christmas with scented wreaths and garlands decorated with the rich colours of the season and old world charm.Read

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