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Getting the pollinators to the garden table

Herbs for Flavour: Mint

Kitchen Library: Kale

Indoor Pursuits

A New Dawn and It Is 2021

Herbs in a box

The new ‘Nearly Normal’

Chelsea Mini Press Day at Home

The Gap That Was Chelsea… Is Now a Virtual Show

House plant addicts – look no further

Shh… listen to the bees a-buzzing and read all about it in ‘The Secret Lives of Garden Bees’ by Jean Vernon

Lockdown Herbs, Veg and Ornamental Plant and Flower Resources

Beating the Corona Blues in My Herb Garden

‘Diary of a Modern Country Gardener’ by Tamsin Westhorpe

Uncovering the Secrets of Cambridge Botanic Garden – A Post for the Candide App

My herb inspirations for Advent 2019: Days 15–24

Top Ten Festive Plants – A Post for the Candide App

My herb inspirations for Advent 2019: Days 8–14

My herb inspirations for Advent 2019: Days 1–7

Powerful Plants for Halloween – my post for the Candide app

Guild of Food Writers on Tour in the Waveney Valley

Getting to know Japanese herbs and salad leaves

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019… a glimpse

Grenada – Island Paradise

Books to linger with in the kitchen and the garden

A Bundle of Herbs for Advent (Part 3)

A Bundle of Herbs a Day for Advent (Part 2)

A Bundle of Herbs for Advent (Part 1)

Christmas trees just want to party…

Christmas at Kew

On my bookshelf: The Generous Gardener by Caroline Donald

Staying home, thinking and sorting

Getting pepped up

On my bookshelf: The Illustrated College Herbal and A Taste of Herbs

Show time in July… and the new one is the first Belvoir Flower & Garden Festival

Peas & Love at Chelsea

Celebrating Humphry Repton in 2018

First-time flinger in Austin Texas

Woottens then and now

Suffolk artist and three exhibitions: Sir Cedric Morris (1889-1982)

Racing to Ascot

A herb a day in December (Part 2)

A herb a day in December (Part 1)

How we got from A to B: producing the text and images for Secret Gardens of East Anglia

A taster of the book: 5 Secret gardens of East Anglia

July in the garden

The Chawton House Library Herb Garden

Harvests in my colander in June into July

Five great herb gardens to visit – Latest post for Richard Jackson’s Garden

June is busting out all over… #mygardenrightnow

What was I doing entering the Property Press Awards 2017?

Shows and plants: Malvern in early May
