On Sunday evening I went to pick a few broad beans, as you do. 30 degrees of daily sunshine and enough water to stop the plants keeling o...

Put the colours purple and green together and you have one of my favourite colour combinations.  Despite this area of the community garde...

A couple of years ago, I bought this plant as a tiny £2 twig from a well known food supermarket - it's now about 3 feet tall! This is...

I've been a bit worried by the lack of any ladybird sightings in the garden, possibly another indicator of this year's late arriv...

Veg and herbs to the left, fruit to the right, spuds and edible shrubs in the middle. So much for posting twice in one day as promised ...

Braeburn apples Earlier in the year, as gales threatened the prolific blossom on the fruit trees, I wondered whether the small numbers ...

Symphytum officinale,  or comfrey as it's better known, is one of the those plants that was on my 'must have' list for the g...