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Come winter and most gardeners crawl indoors for a hard-earned rest. Not so the team at Anglesey Abbey, who this week will head down to their winter garden with jet-washers and scrubbing brushes. Washing the trees keeps the extraordinary display of colourful and ornamental barks pristine in preparation for the busiest season. The Winter Garden [...]

I admit to finding it very difficult to don my waterproof coat and head off to the allotment when it is blowing a gale or very cold. I worry that I am indeed a bit of a wimpy gardener, a fair weather one. So it should come as no surprise that this year I’ve decided [...]

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The leaves have fallen from the trees, there is a distinct nip in the air, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. These altogether mean pumpkin time at our house. You might use this versatile vegetable to make a jack-o-lantern, or only as a pumpkin pie. But there are as many sides to this delicious [...]

‘But my garden really isn’t very stylish,’ objected Irene Knightley when I first approached her about a Real Garden feature. She must be an incredibly modest woman, as this is one of the most romantic gardens I have ever seen. True, La Ferme de Sorrou, a garden in south-west France, isn’t manicured to right-angled perfection. [...]

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Let’s face it: not every gardener likes shovelling manure in the rain and spending all Saturday fussing over their sweetcorn plants. If you’re brand-new to gardening, this whole dirt-under-the-fingernails thing can be off-putting enough without the vast swathes of knowledge you are expected to acquire. So what if there was a book aimed at girly [...]

A new month and it seems like an entirely different country. Autumn now seems to be heading inexorably towards winter as posts in our weather blog show. We made just a flying visit to the plot to harvest a few vegetables and make sure plants in the greenhouse had sufficient water. We didn’t even stop [...]

I absolutely love Victoriana Nursery Gardens. They have such a marvellous selection of unusual seeds and plants, and the company is family-run. They’re a lovely bunch of people too, and have teamed up with Fennel&Fern to offer a 10% discount to all our readers forever. To get the discount, all you need to do is [...]

I fell in love with the Hercules Garden at Blair Castle in Fife when I was a young teenager. It wasn’t difficult: a walled garden complete with bothy, Japanese bridge, a folly, vegetables beds and fruit trees running down in stripes to a lake. The beds are beautiful from Spring to late Autumn, as pictured [...]

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