THE PUNK GARDENER

The People's Palace on the hill sometimes feels like a blueprint for how all public spaces should be. I feel at home there, among the gr...

The tulips have started blooming now in the garden. This year they are huge, dramatic, absurd. Even the species tulips have done amazingly w...

I'm a big fan of freestyling ferns, though I'll be the first to admit that they do go wrong, here and there. They prise things apart...

Once again, I feel like the spring is too dry, too wet, too dry again.  And so I am reading about multiyear megadroughts followed by record ...

Winter is black mould season in the estates up and down the UK. We tolerate it, then snap at it, we bleach it off, we dry it out, we run our...

Before I can put The Falls away I have one last section to revisit, and this is biography 83, Geoffrey Fallthius. This tells the story of ...

Last March in the garden was rather warmer than this month. Though certain things ("rosemary in wild flower" and "propogator ...