Features and Advice

Combine freshly dug garden leeks and herbs to create a creamy, tasty risotto for a summer lunch. Recipe thanks to The Pig, near Bath.

Add perfume to your garden with plants. Choose scented flowers and plant them near the patio so that you get the best from every waft of fragrance.

Nasturtiums reward you in many ways, with edible leaves, flowers and seeds and best of all, they are easy to grow from seed.

The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge, a new BBC2 series is creating controversy. Critics claim the show is making garden design into a ‘MasterChef’-style competition.

Hedgehogs are the gardeners’ friend, they are now in serious decline and need all the help that we can give them. As the weather warms up our prickly garden friends emerge from hibernation.

Growing your own vegetables in the garden is easy. Graham Rice chooses five easy veg to grow including courgette, onion, chard, lettuce & radish.

Grasses really can be great garden plants and the most wonderful thing about them is that they need very little investment by way of time and effort according to Neil Lucas.

A garden inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s textiles will be on display as part of the Chelsea Fringe festival and at the Tate Britain.

Watch out for aphids on your plants this spring. This common garden pest can cause a big problem for gardeners, sucking sap from plants.

Here are five flowers whose seeds you can throw in your beds and borders and which will come up with little or no attention. Just rake in and forget about them, says Graham Rice.

Welcome to my new website. Gardeners love sharing tips and ideas, and I hope my website will help and inspire everyone, especially new gardeners, to make more of their outdoor space.

This salad, from delicious magazine, is a fabulous combination of smoked salmon, dill, Jersey royals and cucumber – the perfect springtime salad recipe.

Spring brings the garden into life and as the days warm up, it’s a good time to be out tidying up after winter and getting ready for the year ahead.

This purple sprouting broccoli soup is gorgeous with the addition of spicy crumbled chorizo, and perfect for springtime according to delicious magazine.

This recipe from delicious magazine for simple watercress, citrus and radish salad makes a perfect quick side dish.

A shortcut supper recipe made with gnocchi, cheese sauce and parma ham, from delicious magazine.

Make this tasty recipe for nasturtium pesto using the leaves of nasturtiums.