Growing in the Border
a hands-on approach to gardening

Spring is here and the plants are stretching their limbs, head’s up, ready to get going for the year’s growing. There is much to be...

February is the month where winter starts to fall away. There will likely be cold stings in the tail, but the new leaves are starting to...

Let’s start 2024 with a focus on apple tree pruning. Winter is the main season in the year for pruning trees, shrubs and woody climbers....

People often ask me, ‘what do you do in the garden in winter?’ I think it must be imagined that the garden gate is locked, all disappears...

The change from October to November brings a shortening and a shifting of the daylight hours, cooler temperatures and the first light...

Though we are some distance from winter, September always feels like the change of year in the garden. As the temperatures lower and the...