Beth Chatto
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How to make the most of your wet weather garden
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- September 5, 2020, 06:00
Unlike us humans, a surprisingly wide range of plant species love to live in a cool, damp soil. This is, of course, great news for many Irish gardener(...)

This jewel of a gravel garden needs weeding just once a year
- Gardens
- July 11, 2020, 00:00
It was back in 1993, as a young goldsmith recently arrived in Stuttgart to take up an apprenticeship with the master goldsmith Gerald Heinrich, that K(...)

Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes
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- March 7, 2020, 00:00
We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

A Chelsea winner's guide to creating a tranquil garden
- Gardens
- February 22, 2020, 00:00
Subtle, thoughtful and planet-friendly, there is a delicacy and intelligence to the work of the British garden designer Sarah Price – one of the key s(...)

The best gardening books to give this Christmas
- Gardens
- December 14, 2019, 00:00
The late Beth Chatto revolutionised the gardening world with her ecological approach to garden design as well as with her painterly eye for subtle, un(...)

Want head-turning spring flowers? Now is the time to buy
- Gardens
- September 7, 2019, 00:00
When I recently mentioned to a non-gardening friend that I needed to order my spring-flowering bulbs before all the “must-have” varieties sold out, sh(...)

Take a leaf from this new crop of gardening books
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- December 16, 2017, 08:00
If ever there was proof that the very best gardeners are often also the oldest gardeners, then it’s in this year’s crop of gardening books. These off(...)

The best presents for the gardener in your life
- Gardens
- December 3, 2015, 12:00
I won’t tell you what horticulturally-themed horrors I stumbled across while researching this week’s column, except to say if you are unlucky en(...)

Grounds to note
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- September 21, 2013, 01:00
I’ve ordered myself a notebook. Not any old notebook, mind you, but a proper, grown-up Moleskine notebook of the kind once beloved of the late travel (...)