Hints and Tips

A Rum Do?

A Rum Do?

(Reproduced from ‘Cotswold Garden Flowers’ catalogue 2004 and amended under lockdown in April 2020.) Winter is coming...

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Alliums in March

Alliums in March

ALLIUM TRIQUETRUM It’s very beautiful, immensely invasive, a problem weed in the west of Britain and, I’ve discovered...

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Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks

Have you noticed how good they are this year?  There’s more flower and the leaves have much less fungal rust than...

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Plants for bees

Plants for bees

There are around 25,000 species of bees worldwide – but only 270 species found in Britain. All bees are vitally...

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