© Katherine Sanderson It’s the temperament of her subjects that gives photographer Katherine Sanderson such a buzz. “I love shooting flowers. They are such well-behaved models - patient, uncomplaining beauties without egos… and expressive from their first bud to the last clinging petal.” ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & Fern readers can get 10% off on flower, vegetable [...]

Finally, we have a formal plan for the Garden From Scratch. Until now, we’ve been working from scribblings on post-it notes and at the edge of notebooks. The ink has barely dried before the work has commenced. In fact, a rough sketch in August was enough to start the hard landscaping(this roughly translates as digging [...]

New Routes: October 2008 by Jill Coleman It’s late in the season, but the growing continues. The onion sets and garlic should go in this week as we spent most of Friday clearing away the rampant growth of nasturtiums that had smothered the vegetable bed. Honey bees were still indignantly diving at [...]

New Routes: October 2008 by Jill Coleman With our rather soggy summer waving a forlorn farewell from the horizon, autumn is now well and truly upon us. Rather than spending the season in rest and reflection, though, it’s all been busy, busy, busy here at New Routes as we start to plan ahead [...]

Buddleia davidii. Photo by tijmenkroes Buddleia is a common-as-muck garden shrub. But it doesn’t consider itself just a garden shrub. Stare out of any train window and you will see miles of purple spires running alongside the track as the thuggish Buddleja davidii scrambles for more and more space. Ask anyone who maintains railway tracks [...]