The Craft Gardener
Canterbury, Kent

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Winter can be a pretty grim time in the garden. It's wet, the leaves are off the trees, and you probably feel like turning your back on...

It's that time of year. For the past three weeks, my time at Pashley Manor has been spent endlessly deadheading. It does get a little...

Back in spring, I planted up my dustbins with Helianthus 'Teddy Bear'. After one or two brushes with sunflower stem rot, the plants are...

If you read Gardens Illustrated you'll have seen the recent features by Matthew Reese on container combinations. Matthew is the Head...

So, the Tulip combination was a happy accident. And so too is the combination of 'Bleu Aimable' with Allium hollandicum 'Purple...

A visit to Charleston in East Sussex, home to members of the Bloomsbury group. Beautifully decorated interiors, with not a surface left...

Inspired by Helen Dillon's use of dustbins as planters (see my Tulip scrumptious blog entry), and a beautiful planting of massed...

Some accidents are bad - like the time my dad gave me my first driving lesson, got a little over ambitious and had me reversing round a...

Theoretically, you're supposed to do this in winter, tucked up in front of a roaring fire when you can't do anything in the garden. I...

I love annuals, and it saddens me that garden centres offer such a limited range. They're fantastic for filling gaps in the border, and...