I have relinquished control of my garden – and what it has done is beautiful
I would have preferred the poppies to have returned rather than the tree spinach, but the pink hollyhocks are a…
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Be your own florist – it’s simple and sustainable
Maintaining a few scruffy flower beds banishes the need for shop-bought bouquets.
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A shadow hangs over this year’s Chelsea Flower Show – our climate crisis
Chelsea was always ecologically problematic, but it feels impossible now to view it simply as a pretty flower show.
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Putting the front garden front and centre
Inspired and energised, I’ve decided to give our neglected yard the love it deserves.
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From the NS archive: Shakespeare’s garden
26 May 1923: With what relish Shakespeare recites his catalogue of flowers!
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