GARDENING

Blooming marvellous

From fashionista at American Vogue to a muddy field in Somerset – no wonder Georgie Newbery's flowers are cut above gorgeous
What to do in the garden in May

Aside from sip a large G&T? Garden expert Jane Follis shares her list of gardening jobs for the merry month of May
New Year, New Garden

Your outside space looking less than wonderful? This is the time to come up with a plan - so read our five tips to jazz up that garden!
Gardening for Dummies

Sow, mow, rake! Easy tips to keep your garden in shape throughout October - no experience required...
Pick up a trowel and let’s get happy

Toby Buckland's September gardening tips: short snippy whajamacallits and long lopper thingamajigs at the ready...
The bees knees

Invite the bees in your garden to check into one of these cleverly designed bee hotels (I've stayed in less stylish places)
Joe Swift in the garden

TV presenter, author and gardener Joe Swift is coming to Somerset to reveal how a guitar strumming yoof became one of the UK's top garden designers (and maker of superb meringues). That's in his one man show 'A man about the garden'.I asked him what I should be doing in my own terribly overgrown garden at this time of year.
Cheerie chairs

Sit down in one of these fabby, not shabby, chic deckchairs up-cycled in Wells, then chill out and sip that long, cool glass of Pimms ...
5 jobs in the garden in July

This month’s gardening tips come from Claire Greenslade, head gardener at Hestercombe in Cheddon Fitzpaine, just outside Taunton. A visit to Hestercombe is a crash course in the history of garden design: there’s an 18th century landscape garden (Gothic folly, classical temple, waterfall), a Victorian terrace with tree roses straight from pages of Alice in […]
April’s must-do garden jobs

April’s list of essential gardening jobs come from Jess Evans, who heads up the team at the small but perfectly formed National Trust’s Tintinhull Garden just outside Yeovil. There’s a beautiful 17th century hamstone manor house (closed to the public except for two small rooms, although you can rent the whole house as a holiday […]