Advice & Inspiration For Your Garden

my top wild flower mixes and garden-worthy varieties

Wild flowers were my first love in the plant world. Here are my favourite varieties, that flower for months, not just a few fleeting weeks, and are possible to grow in your own back garden. For instru

a spring wild flower adventure

I remember one sunny May weekend nearly 20 years ago spending a couple of days botanising down in the West Country.We had a white 2CV, and drove around very slowly, roof down, spotting any colour chan

my favourite british wild flowers

I'm on a mission to get more of us to grow British wild flowers in our gardens. As ever-increasing numbers of these plants vanish from the countryside, our own private spaces become more important – a

my love of wild flowers

All my life, I have been in love with wild flowers ... so much so I published a book documenting 500 of Britain's most beautiful specimens. Read on for an extract which explains why I'm so fond of our

the wild flowers of sicily

It had to be the most unpromising bit of landscape I’d ever seen. The entire bay – literally – was rimmed with oil refineries, tanker loading bays, incomprehensible tangles of pipework and steel, red-