Rachel the Gardener

  Every time I teach a Botany class, whether it's organised adult education, or just me and the Midweek Botany Crew, I always make a poi...

 I was talking about how to water new planting , in a period of hot dry weather, the other day and, in very much the same vein, a differe...

 We all love Alchemilla mollis:   It's a wonderful cottage-garden style filler plant: a billowy mass of tiny yellow flowers through the ...

 I know, I know, I'm always going on about this: it is not possible to create a genuine Wildflower Meadow in a domestic setting, for ma...

  I'm sure many of you are familiar with crop marks: no, not crop circles, but crop marks, where parched (or lusher) marks in areas of g...