News Bialowieza - Europe's last virgin forest

The Bia l owieza Forest in eastern Poland is somewhere I have always wanted to go � the only genuinely virgin, untouched lowland ...

News Travels in Iberia

Its at least a month since we got back from a trip to Spain and Portugal, but better late than never. Basically a holiday but al...

News Moving on?

�You should have seen the garden last week� is a comment often heard from the lips of gardeners. In fact it has become something of a joke...

News RHS Shows - A Requiem for a great institution

I've taken some time to get this post up, seems ages that I was down in London to do a lecture for the Royal Horticultural Society Sprin...

News Educating gardeners and designers part two

More thoughts on garden education Following on from my last post, more thoughts on how we learn stuff. I've lost count of the number o...

News Teaching gardening skills - the decline stops here!

Two conversations recently about the terrible state of horticultural education in Britain: both with former teachers at (former) horticult...

News Would you trust a seed swap seed?

Its February, so it must be seed swap time again! Seed swaps have been growing in popularity for some years now. The best known ...