Isabel Bannerman

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Jennifer Jewell: “I see hope and value in a self-sustaining cycle of living with plants, loving plants, learning plants, growing plants, knowing plants, interpreting plants.” Photograph: John Whittlesey
Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes

  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(...)

Wild about Weeds, Garden Design with Rebel Plants by Jack Wallington
The best gardening books to give this Christmas

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(...)

The lipstick-pink and orange fruits of the native spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus, in their autumn glory. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Berry good: Fight the flu or fill a vase with these autumn berries

As gardeners, we can sometimes be so enthralled by the spectacle of autumn leaves in all their fierce, fiery beauty that we don’t fully appreciate the(...)

The meadows at Highgrove House in Tetbury, England. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Who would've thought Prince Charles's garden would be so on trend?

If the rumours of recent weeks turn out to be true, then a certain member of the British royal family will be paying a visit to Kilkenny any day now. (...)

A bumblebee feeding on a cosmos flower. Photograph: Richard Johnston
How to make your garden a haven for bees

With a horde of scientific studies confirming the fact that populations of wild bees, butterflies and other insects are in dramatic decline, many gard(...)