How would you like to enjoy a cup of tea or a glass of wine in the garden while watching the birds splash about in a bird bath or watch a sneaky lizard snatch a moth from the air. Imagine butterflies flitting about the buddleias and even smaller visions of […]

Few activities in the garden are as satisfying as growing food in your own back yard. Creating and maintaining a vegetable patch is an activity that feeds the body as well as the soul as you can follow your own philosophy about the use of fertilisers and pesticides.

Often when we set out to create gardens around our homes we think first of the showy ornamental plants. Naturally we want our landscapes to look good and to value to our homes.

I used to call it dirt. Some people still do. But dirt is such a dismissive word for something that is amazingly complex and truly wonderful.

Autumn is the busiest time for planting in the Mediterranean garden as the soil is warm but after the excessive heat of summer the days are starting to cool.