In the 20 July 2024 edition of Amateur Gardening, Barbara Segall explains how to enjoy zesty pickings through the growing of herbs.
The Best Trees and Shrubs for Healing – for Amateur Gardening
In the 25 May 2024 edition of Amateur Gardening, Barbara Segall takes a look at the often hidden medicinal properties of many common garden plants.
The Best Blooms for Eating – for Amateur Gardening
In the 27 April 2024 edition of Amateur Gardening, Barbara Segall extols the delights and uses of edible flowers, and lists her top 10.
The Secret Garden – for The English Garden magazine
The discovery of crumbling 19th-century walls at ten-acre Old Hall Farmhouse in Norfolk, inspired textile artist Jane-Ann Walton to weave a colour-filled garden along the lines of her favourite book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. By Barbara Segall As featured in the May 2024 issue of The English Garden.
The Wit & Wisdom of Barbara Segall, in Suffolk Magazine
Gardens – growing them and writing about them – have been a life-long passion for the award-winning garden author and journalist Barbara Segall. And there’s still more to come. A profile by Marion Welham for Suffolk Magazine. As featured in the April 2024 issue of Suffolk Magazine.
A Colourful Courtyard Garden – for House Beautiful
This gorgeous blend of lush planting and artful design tricks is a masterclass in how to create a sense of space. Barbara Segall visits garden designer Janey Auchincloss’s courtyard garden in Suffolk. As featured in House Beautiful magazine. As featured in the April 2024 issue of House Beautiful magazine.
A River Runs Through It – for The Garden magazine
As Fullers Mill Garden in Suffolk wells into life, Barbara Segall explores the sparkling wonders of the tranquil waterside space. As featured in The Garden magazine, March 2024
Be a First-Time Show-Stopper – for Garden Design Journal
The annual BBC Gardeners’ World shows – the Spring Fair, GW Live, and the Autumn Fair – offer great opportunities for student, newly qualified and more experienced designers alike to experience the excitement, pressure, and process of creating and presenting an exhibit for competition in a public-facing environment. Barbara Segall finds out more, for Garden…
Book review: Gardening Can Be Murder
A review of Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers, by Marta McDowell, for Gardens Illustrated, October 2023.
A Labour of Love – for The English Garden
Thirty years of planning, planting and waiting have paid off, and while maintaining the now-mature topiary in this Suffolk garden is a relentless task, on a crisp morning John and Jenny Brett feel it’s worth the effort, by Barbara Segall. As featured in the December 2023 issue of The English Garden.