Rachel the Gardener

   Recently, I wrote about deadheading Buddleia through the late summer, and the principle of using the frequent dead-heading to “nibble” y...

   Once you’ve been a self-employed Gardener for a couple of years or more, it’s easy to get swept up in the seasons, and to lose sight of ...

   Well, too late here in Oxfordshire: this Iris, with its ugly unspellable name, is usually known as Algerian Iris, or Winter Iris, for th...

Who remembers that jingle? And, even better, who remembers the spoof version by the Goodies? *singing* “For hands that wash crocks,...

   ... or so I was saying to myself last week, looking dolefully out of the rain-spattered window, having just cancelled all my jobs for th...