Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine

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Even folks lacking a green thumb can fill their homes with these funky, fun, plump plants that come in countless shapes, sizes and textures. You have to love a plant that thrives on neglect. “They are forgiving as long as you don’t over-water them,”

The Christian Science Monitor

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In the beginning, there was a garden. This is true in the Bible, of course; Adam and Eve living in that teeming paradise, repainted and reimagined by artists across centuries. But it was also the case for Claude Monet, who carefully designed his flow

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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A good sweep with a brush works wonders for a small garden, but neatness alone will not make it interesting, which is especially apparent when everything can be seen at a glance. Gardens come alive with leaf textures, tree shapes, considered material

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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Perfect for a speedy blaze of vibrant colour, long-flowering Agastache ‘Pink Scepter’ blooms its head off with floral spikes through summer and autumn. Bird-aftracting and dry-tolerant once established, it copes with most soils, is pot perfect and ha

The English Garden

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This winter I have finally, to use an appropriately horticultural metaphor, grasped the nettle. We have just finished digging up and burning 150 metres of beloved box parterre: 1,000 plants of Buxus suffruticosa, made from cuttings no bigger than the

Victoria

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As Carolyn Aiken takes an early morning stroll through her garden in the idyllic Canadian community of Warren Grove, the cheerful lilt of birdsong and the staccato whirr of darting dragonflies blend in a stirring symphony that accompanies her steps.

Amateur Gardening

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I BUY too many gardening magazines and seem to be addicted to buying seeds. Not that I am ever going to grow them all, as I do not have 10 greenhouses! I think I will give some to my grandchildren to grow. I am sure they will appreciate it and also t

Period Living

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Catch a falling apple in this whimsical, fruit-shaped basket. Store the fruit and vegetable harvest from your kitchen garden in the decorative as well as practical braided rattan design by Ferm Living, or keep snuggly throws within in readiness for t

Kitchen Garden

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Kay and Patrick McHugh purchased Church Gardens in 1995 after constantly working on the derelict property for two-and-a-half years and moved in with their three-year-old daughter and four-week-old twin daughters in 1998. The walled gardens were once

The Gardener Magazine

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The forest elder or bosvlier is usually a small tree 3 – 6m high in cultivation, but very old specimens can reach up to 25m in forested habitats in the wild. A member of the Stilbaceae family, this evergreen tree occurs mainly in eastern South Africa

Country Life

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WHEN he’s not posting portraits of his beloved bantams or the glorious abundance of jewel-coloured, wildlife-attracting annuals, half-hardies and bulbs that he grows in metal troughs and dolly tubs at home in a tiny courtyard in Hucknall, Nottinghams

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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Shared courtyard gardens, designed by Declan Buckley Studio, are a central feature of a development of eight units that has recently won planning permission from Waltham Forest Council in east London. The new homes, designed by Trevor Horne Architect

Inside Out

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When landscape architect Trystan Graham of Outdoor Establishments was commissioned to create a garden for the owners of a house on Sydney’s far northern beaches, he saw the trees already on site and realised they could become the focal point of his l

Country Homes & Interiors

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Owners John and Jackie Copping, a retired counsellor and textile artist. House Longyard Cottage, dating from the 1740s, in Nazeing, Essex. Features A large garden with broad lawns shaded in summer by willows, birches and beeches, and home to coun

Kitchen Garden

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www.backdoorshoes.co.uk Looking for something unique and useful to gift this year? Backdoorshoes are the answer! Lightweight, waterproof, durable clogs featuring a range of prints from Bees (as featured) – Daisies – Nuts & Bolts – Chillies. There rea

Your Home

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This vigorous rambling rose may only flower once for a few weeks from the end of April onwards, but when it does it’s clear to see why so many professional gardeners rave about it. The thornless branches become smothered in hanging sprays of butter-y

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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A born superstar, Phlox ‘Jagger’ bedazzles with its clusters of magenta-eyed lilac blooms from mid-spring through to autumn. Right for small spaces, borders, pots and hanging baskets, it thrives in sun and well-draining soil, getting to 20cm tall by

Amateur Gardening

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I AM writing to sing the praises of Euonymus as a tough shrub. It grows happily in dry soil, doesn’t grow too fast, and will take the worst winter weather, even the ‘Beast from the East’. The small cultivars, ‘Emerald Gaiety’ and ‘Emerald ’n’ Gold’,

The English Garden

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by Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld Thames & Hudson, £39.95 It is difficult not to love abundant country house gardens and fulsome floral arrangements. Throw in a potting shed, cut-flower room and a dose of Constance Spry and Willow Pattern

Earth Garden

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AS PART of the Diggers Club’s 40th birthday celebrations, Clive Blazey has authored a new soft-back book titled ‘Diggers 40 Years of the Best Garden Ideas’. This is an inspiring 160-page compilation of Diggers’ best garden ideas, garden-worthy plants

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Now is the time to trim back any winter-flowering heather – ensuring the best chance of some much needed colour later in the year. Cut back or thin out established aquatic plants in your pond. If removing weeds, leave them near the pond overnight, to

Belle

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With its sweep of bangalow palms swishing in the breeze and bougainvillea tumbling over the walls, this laid-back home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs could be in the Caribbean. But when its designer, Marcia Hosking, first saw it the garden was laid out

Outdoor Rooms

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Words Carey Cavanagh Photos Patrick Redmond Situated on a sloping block with a large elm in what remained of the old front garden, this brand new contemporary home in a leafy suburb of Melbourne presented a number of design challenges. There were num

House and Leisure

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From the road, Mary Jane Darroll’s house looks much like any other of its era. A neat 1940s bungalow, it’s part of a Johannesburg suburb that, just a century ago, was a series of farms. It’s only when you walk through the door and out to the patio on

BBC Gardeners' World

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I loved what Monty had to say about being more self-reliant and taking stock of what we actually need during this uncertain time (The Full Monty, May issue). Having been unable to purchase the seeds I wanted to sow this spring, I rummaged in the shed

Sunday Tribune

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TASCHICA PILLAY taschica.pillay@inl.co.za RESIDENTS of Shallcross are beautifying their community by cleaning their unsightly verges and clearing areas that were used as dumping grounds. The Shallcross Commumity Forum embarked on a “Keep Our Area Cl

Kitchen Garden

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I read Gaby Bartai’s article in the February issue with great interest. I also use raised beds for my vegetables. All my raised beds are made from 8x4in treated timber and are 16in deep. The two beds adjacent the garden shed in the photo are 6ft long

Homebuilding & Renovating

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“The front of your house should be treated just as thoughtfully as the rest. Consider planting to soften the space and give you some privacy. Mix your materials so the space is more interesting and think about storage for the mundane everyday things

Kitchen Garden

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We have enjoyed months of mayhem, madness and making new acquaintances with The starter plotters and now all but one of them have moved off on to the main site at Ashbourne Road and District Allotments in Derby, leaving the little starter plots, that

Country Life

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Even nowadays, some gardeners burn fallen leaves. They are a precious resource, because they make the finest compost. If you are blessed with oak, beech and hornbeam, you have the pick of the bunch. Others will do, too, but screen out leathery evergr