Gardens

A vase of fresh flowers cut straight from the garden can instantly make a house feel more like a home. There are plenty of cut flowers that you can grow at home, but if you need some inspiration take a look at our top ten favourites.

It’s an easy plant to grow, and adds a wonderful scent and colour to any garden. It’s also a plant bees love, so you might not want to harvest all of it – leave a little for the bees.

Interior and exterior design are as much about performance as they are aesthetics. When it comes to garden furniture, we’re faced with myriad choices. So how do you decide which is ‘the one’?

Standards are useful for adding height to a border and look particularly impressive when planted closely together in groups of three or four.

Sometimes the winter seems like a bleak time, although there are, of course, things that make it worthwhile: hot chocolate, warm fires, and planting apple trees.