Chelsea Gold Medal 2013 | BBC Gardener of the Decade 2008 | BBC Gardener of the Year 1999

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My Top 10 Evergreen Shrubs

The holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown…etc etc….my, how we enjoyed singing the Christmas carols only a couple of weeks ago. The anticipation of Christmas gets earlier every year,

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My top 10 perennials

At the time of writing this the rain is battering the borders flat and I have no desire to nip out and see how the garden is doing – whatever it is, it can do it on its own.

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Guest Post by Tim Rogers

Nest Boxes in Your Garden: How to Use Them

If you want to attract birds into your garden then providing nest boxes where they can shelter and hide from the weather in the winter months and nurture and protect their young in the spring and summer month is the perfect choice.

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My top 10 trees

Of all the months of the gardening year, November ranks as one of my least favourite.

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Phew it was hot…

Last September I wrote about how we don’t really need fancy arbours and pergolas in our gardens

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‘Beast’ and drought proof plants

Just as we thought we would be dodging tumbleweed rolling down the streets, along came an inch or two of rain on Sunday 29^th July, enough to postpone our worst fears of our gardens transforming into deserts.

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It’s not all grim Oop North

We are in the grip of a June heatwave and if it continues as forecast, The Summer of Twenty Eighteen will be recalled with the same awe as The Summer of Seventy Six.