These tiny black dots with asymmetrical mouth-parts are not just microscopic nightmares, but the sap-sucking bane of houseplants

Far from the madding crowd in Totleigh Barton

Much can be grown inside even a small kitchen, if one has a window and no common sense at all

Even on a fairly ordinary day, the writer secrets about her person various buds, leaves, shells, pebbles…

In the bleak midwinter, true gardeners find their thoughts turning to buying far too much online

The chilly weather wreaks devastation on the writer’s roof terrace