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BE A WINNER IN YOUR GARDEN!

Never mind the weather, says VAL JAVIN – all you need is pride in your own plot Read

Create an adventure for your children in their own garden

An area of garden for a child to dig in becomes a place to find or hide treasure; a home made garden ornament or statue becomes a fairy or a monster lurking in a jungle Read

Recognise how your hot and shady spots come and go

‘No matter whether you drink gin or not, it is quite nice to have a warm, sunny spot in the garden’ Read

Wild about Garlic – If you are out walking in the local woods around Huddersfield over the next month, you may pick up a faint but definite smell of garlic.

It probably isn’t the aromas of the local Italian pizza restaurant drifting across the area but one of our native woodland plants, known as ramsons or wild garlic, allium ursinum. Read

Hungry night-time visitors are proving to be a big problem!

‘It is possible that some slugs species may have woken up from their slumbers for a quick feast’ Read

Why we all have to eat seasonally

Our green columnist KATE ARMSTRONG, of Marsh on the concerns of how far our food travels to our plate Read

Mother’s Day is the ideal time to begin appreciating garden

WITH only two weeks to go before Mother’s Day, I wonder what you have got planned, as those little extra special presents, for the women in your life? Read

Worm tea on tap for free

Our green columnist KATE ARMSTRONG, of Marsh on the joys of all things wormy Read

There are powerful forces at work to protect our trees!

‘You may receive a fine of up to £20,000 – this includes any works carried out by a third party – a tree surgeon or a neighbour for example. It is still your tree!’ Read

OH such a Sweet Box!

Don’t be confused by the common name; I am talking about the delightful winter flowering evergreen shrub, Sarcococca. Read

GIVEN the increased popularity of bamboos over recent years, as living screens and specimen plants, I am a little surprised that some bright entrepreneur has not developed and marketed a bamboo barrier! Read

Artistic way of going to pot for springtime

WHY not welcome in the spring by making a container pot for your early plants? Read

Silver birch best value for garden impact

OF all the winter trees, our native silver birch and its close relatives must be the best value for garden impact. Read

Hardy ferns recapture glory days of Victorian gardens

IF you had been alive in the Victorian era, you would almost certainly have had ferns in your house and your garden. Read

Watch the birdies

IS climate change keeping the birds out of our gardens? Read

How to sow the seeds of a glorious summer border

NOW that we have turned the corner of the new year, seed sowing of many different plants can get underway and it is worth experimenting with some of the modern herbaceous perennials. Read

Even the winter pansies are not yet safe from the slugs

SOME weeks ago, I wrote an article on the life of worms in our gardens and how they do such good work for us. Read

Every garden should have this knight in shining armour

WITH bulbs the size of a good onion, leaves the length of an arm and flowers the size of a soup bowl, it is no wonder that we are all attracted to this fabulous winter flowering bulb. Read

Time to put into place the building blocks of your garden

‘The strictest formality of design, with the maximum informality of planting’ Read

Winter heath

AS winter begins to show itself, in all its strange guises, surely it must be right to have plants in the garden that enjoy the short days, long nights and lower temperatures and that can give us colour and pleasure until the world tips back on its axis and gives us signs of spring. Read