by Funda Kemal | Oct 6, 2022 | Garden Inspiration
Mental Health UK has a section on its website about how to handle ‘Climate Anxiety’, the name given to a feeling of fear or stress about what the adverse effects of a warming planet caused by carbon dioxide emissions will be. Even with news of depleting glaciers,... 
by Kate Woodhead | Aug 18, 2022 | Gardens, Garden Inspiration
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world” John Muir. Visiting beautiful gardens on a sunny afternoon is one of life’s great pleasures, especially if you are on holiday and have no time pressures. The VanDusen gardens in... 
by Kate Woodhead | Jul 20, 2022 | Garden Inspiration
Shopping for plants is a lovely way to spend an afternoon. But cheaper and more satisfying, and the easiest way to ensure your garden, balcony or pots are always full of flowering plants, is to divide and pot up the ones you have, or save the seeds. Then enjoy them... 
by Kate Woodhead | May 5, 2022 | Plants, flowers, Garden Inspiration
Popular flowering plants for your herbaceous borders The plants I am going to explore are popular for good reason; they are colourful, easy to grow without much intervention and persist in their flowering year after year. Two of them are the backbone of many borders... 
by Funda Kemal | Apr 8, 2022 | Garden Inspiration
Green roofs, also known as living roofs, are simply roofs designed to grow plants on top of them. They are not just reserved for the likes of hobbit houses, as the excellent insulating properties of the combined plant and soil layers help retain a building’s heat in... 
by Sarah Johnson | Feb 16, 2022 | Garden Inspiration
This month I want to transport you away from the wet, dark winter days of the UK all the way to Madeira, the lush, green volcanic island 400 miles off the coast of Morocco. We all need a bit of sun on our faces and the longer, warmer days of sub-tropical Madeira...