This month’s gardening tips has an emphasis on conservation, so rather than turning the garden into a parking lot, or laying artificial...

Just as the avid gardener has dared to venture out into the March sunshine along comes April in its attempt to turn the perfectly...

I always think of March as being the start of the gardening year because suddenly there is loads to do and avoiding it isn’t really an...

New year’s advice from gardening journos appears to be do as little as needed to enjoy your garden! Enjoying the garden must be what it...

Happy New (gardening) Year from EGRGA I had a very pleasant surprise a few weeks ago, I found out I have a new reader. Welcome to my...

Should I use peat in my garden? The simple answer is no, can I still buy it – yes. The ban on retail sales won’t come into effect until...

Time for my yearly rain update. So, was 2023 a wet year? On average yes, the second wettest since 2007 (the year I started measuring...

My great nephew was in the garden the other day, he had found a slug under a flowerpot and was trying to eat it. “What does that taste...

I start with a request for vigilance! The countryside, rivers and seas around the UK as well as our gardens are increasingly at risk from...

It is that time of year again when planting needs to be done but the weather may not be suitable, perhaps the gardener should just get on...

June is finally here with summer rains that never stop, thirty days to spoil the garden (apologies to Flanders and Swan). After a...

The heat of summer has finally arrived (or not as the case may be). This is the time for those rarest of conversations that include the...

Androgynous Sinensis (AS) here, your artificial intelligence (AI) gardening correspondent, I am now called ‘Asia’, you may remember me...

It’s September, where did summer go? Was there one? Winter the spring seemed to finish around the end of June then there were a couple of...

I have been asked by my reader to write about planting suitable trees for the garden. I’ll have a go – this is a large subject so...

Winter again, already! When was summer and autumn? Any thought of hibernating from the pleasures of winter gardening is probably a good...

Just when you thought all the gardening was over and done for the winter, bumble bees and a few other nectar hungry insects decide to...