WHILE many commercial apple producers have had poor crops this year because the incessant early rain deterred bees from pollinating the blossom, ordinary gardeners may have had more success.Read
THIS useful perennial will add colour to the border through to late autumn, and is immensely useful for its late flowers, which come in shades of deep red and pink.Read
URBAN gardener and TV presenter James Wong doesn’t have a greenhouse, propagators or teams of gardeners, yet he has managed to grow a range of exotic fruit and veg worthy of any Michelin-starred restaurant.Read
FOUNTAIN, or foxtail, grasses are among the most beautiful of deciduous ornamental grasses, their delicate-looking stems topped with long, narrow flowerheads in shades ranging from pinkish-brown to almost white.Read
A rich tapestry of colour should be enveloping our landscape over the next few weeks as leaves turn golden, orange and even red, thanks to a massive growth of foliage during the wet summer followed by cold nights.Read
THESE wonderfully elegant trees are the jewel in the crown of autumn and there is a variety for every size of garden, whether you want to plant them as part of a scheme or as a stand-alone specimen in a pot.Read
THIS pint-sized specimen looks so delicate, with its flowers in shades of white, pink, cerise and magenta appearing in early autumn before the ivy-shaped leaves with heavy marbling.Read
IF you still have green tomatoes, stick them in a paper bag with a banana and that should help them along. In the greenhouse, stop feeding plants and cut back on watering.Read
IT has been a difficult year for fruit and veg, with the cold weather in spring, incessant summer rain and subsequent deluge of slugs, snails, blight and other nuisances.Read
