The transcendent joy of a really wonderful compost heap — and how the odd bucket of urine will help it come along nicely
Glamorous? Surprisingly, yes, since a Hollywood superstar agrees heartily with Mark Diacono about compost.
Glamorous? Surprisingly, yes, since a Hollywood superstar agrees heartily with Mark Diacono about compost.
Resist the urge to tidy the garden and, come the frosts, you will be rewarded with a glorious display of glittering seedheads, says Steven Desmond.
Timothy Mowl looks at Mounton, a house created by Henry Avray Tipping, who served as architectural editor of Country Life over a century ago.
Alan Titchmarsh's father wasn't much of a gardener — but further back in his family tree were many green-fingered forbears, and he still uses many of their tools despite them being over a century old.
This typically-dark city back garden in Kensington has been transformed with a tapestry of foliage. Tiffany Daneff takes a look at how it was done, and discovers the ten rules that we can draw from this beautiful creation in the heart of W8.
Charles Quest-Ritson loves almost all flowers. And the emphasis this week is very much on 'almost'.
Pick the right varieties and next year you could be enjoying fresh raspberries for months instead of weeks, explains Mark Diacono.
John Hoyland, the gardens adviser at Glyndebourne in East Sussex, on clematis.
It's the time of year to plant tulips if you want an explosion of colour next Spring. Alan Titchmarsh picks out some of his favourite tulip varieties which go well beyond the usual suspects.
Mark Diacono shares his advice on one of the trickier fruit trees to get right: the pear tree.
Gardener and writer Mary Keen shares her thoughts on gardening's answer to herding cats: trying to get a wildflower meadow to behave.
John Hoyland, the gardens adviser at Glyndebourne, shares his advice on how to get South African favourite tulbaghia growing in Britain.
Gardener and writer Sarah Raven on the flowers that haven't wilted in the heat.
Expert gardener Mark Diacono shares his advice on how to grow some of the delicious greens which have come to these shores from around the globe.
The 19th century's hugely successful cultivation of plants on the once-barren Ascension Island has lessons for us today, says Charles Quest-Ritson.
Charles Quest-Ritson on the irises to plant, the ones you'll never manage to grow in Britain, and the ones to avoid unless you're happy for them to take over half of your garden.
In gardening, there are no shortcuts says Alan Titchmarsh: you only get out what you put in.
When it comes to trees, says John Hoyland, the more the merrier — but only within reason.
Our resident grow-your-own expert Mark Diacono gives his tips on the surprisingly easy hazelnut.