• Passion Flower
    Flowered after the second year and is followed by amazing fruits which I believe you can eat - although I haven't tried.
  • Trimming ivy
    I've got a stump from and old lilac tree in my garden that is smothered in ivy. I'm quite happy with this but I am going to have to trim the ivy back a bit as its now encroaching into my neighbours garden...
  • An alternative to Ivy
    One of the staple ways of giving nature a home in small gardens is to grow climbers. Given the lack of space, it is a brilliant way of using vertical bare surfaces and filling them with foliage and flowers...
  • Massed passion at Gardeners World Live
    Well, that was good fun! Hello to everyone I got to speak to at Gardeners World Live in Birmingham this weekend, and apologies if I missed anyone as I gadded about through the crowds doing my various...
  • Got to love Ivy
    After trimming a few branches off my conifers, the ivy that was growing inside them has really started to take over and flourish now it is getting some light in there! It've been avoiding cutting off...