Fading leaves of Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' I wish I was a bear.  Not the cuddly fluffy kind but the sort that slopes of...

Pineapple sage - both leaves and flowers are edible. Amazing. Only two months left until the end of 2014 and I've spent a chunk ...

I'm so fickle.  When snowdrops and daffodils burst into life, I declare that I love springtime. But I like to move with the times so, as...

That's it then. The garden and I have been firmly tipped into autumn this past week. Ten days ago, I enjoyed a lovely warm sunny aft...

The late Christopher Lloyd, renowned for his fabulous borders at Great Dixter, adopted a practise of taking a morning stroll around the g...

Autumn is the new summer, to borrow and misquote a piece of fashion nonsense.  Days like today and yesterday are my kind of weather: the ...

There's a bookshelf in the design studios at college where unwanted books can be left for others. It was there I found a small pocket...