More Plants Please
March 14, 2023
I watch the wonderful Wild Isles with mixed emotions. I was very lucky to meet David Attenborough back in the noughties when we sold some wildflowe...
Native Or Non-native Plants?
January 10, 2023
Don't be ideologically driven about which plants to buy for your wildlife garden.
This. Is. A. Disgrace.
September 25, 2022
Friday's "mini budget" has been condemned in some quarters as a reckless, incompetently executed and morally repugnant exercise based on a failed e...
Tom The Apple Man
July 31, 2022
What with one thing and another we're a bit behind meeting some of our new suppliers.
Last season we started selling bare root fruit trees from Tom...
Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat
July 17, 2022
Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - reco...
A Little Politics
July 10, 2022
It's bizarre that as we experience at least a week of really extreme temperatures, neither climate change nor biodiversity loss have yet to feature...
Sabre Wasp
June 25, 2022
Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearl...
Verging on the Impossible
June 13, 2022
Just up the lane we have a really nice verge, which is a kind of mini-meadow. We're acknowledging the value of this kind of area for wildflowers na...
Unwilding
May 28, 2022
HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fant...
The Parable of the Hedgehog
February 23, 2022
How can anyone not love a hedgehog?
They're not just eccentrically endearing but, for many of us of a certain age, they conjure up memories of tim...
Farming in the Brave New World
January 10, 2022
A Revolution in UK Farming?
Sadly the Oxford Farming Conference this year was virtual, which was a great shame. Not least because I was looking for...
The Top Ten Flowers For Bees
January 9, 2022
I used to be guilty of blithely writing top ten lists like this. For many, bees tend to be shorthand for pollinators generally, so you might think ...
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