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Sarah Price’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 garden. Photograph: Clare Takacs
A Chelsea winner's guide to creating a tranquil garden

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(...)

Jobs to do in the garden
Sow delicous: Five great veg and fruit crops to grow this month

 Tomatoes: If you can lavish these hungry, thirsty, heat-loving plants with plenty of attention throughout the growing season, then they’ll rewar(...)

Box hedging in an Irish garden. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Dig in, it’s bare-root planting season

Like shiny-haired, doe-eyed contestants in a reality TV show, it’s the prettiest plants in fullest leaf and bonniest bloom – those exhibiting what the(...)

Snowdrops.
Finding magic in the February garden

It’s funny how the arrival of spring so often takes us by surprise. Each day a few more precious minutes of daylight until nature’s pendulum silently (...)

Ceramic ‘Girl Power Vase’ by For All Womenkind (€35, aprilandthebear.com )
Spread a little garden love this Christmas

Badly in need of some inspiration when it comes to choosing the perfect gift for the special gardener in your life? Then this one’s for you: Under €3(...)

How does any novice gardener transform the dirty, grey soil of what was up until recently a busy building site, into the kind of crumbly, chocolate-coloured growing medium in which plants will happily grow?
After the builders have left, first sort the soil in your new garden

In last week’s column, I wrote about the many challenges of designing and planting a small garden. But what of the special challenges presented by a b(...)