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

This is Somerset, not Spain

When I was a child, my family holidayed in the west of Scotland 14 years in succession.

Tall perennials without stakes

As the freshness of early summer has matured, there can be a feeling of heaviness in the late summer garden.

July is one of the nicest months for a little garden maintenance.

Whenever there is a poll on Britain’s favourite garden flower, the rose is often voted as the best loved.

May is one of my favourite months in the garden.

When I look into the food bank donation bin at the supermarket, I mostly see bags of rice and pasta and the odd tin of tuna.

The SGD Awards 2016, at the Landmark Hotel, London , 27^th January 2017

Now it is the end of days dark at 4.30 and it is noticeably lighter at 5pm, which lightens the spirits no end.

As I have said many times before, my desire to garden is at the lowest ebb just before Christmas,