The Garden’s Busiest Season (You’ve Probably Already Missed It)
Around the middle of August, most British gardeners start tidying up. The dahlias are going over, the courgettes have done…
Posts by Megan Ashcroft
Your Garden Isn’t Really Yours
A still October morning and you stand at the bottom of your garden to look at what's growing along the…
The Locked Larder Under Your Feet
You water your plant every evening, scatter expensive fertiliser around its roots like you're salting a good steak. You read…
The Surprisingly Radical History of Having a Nice Garden
Somewhere in Britain right now, someone is arranging terracotta pots on a patio and feeling faintly smug about it. Fair…
Your Garden Is Running on a Clock You Can’t See
Somewhere in your garden right now, a plant is doing maths. Not consciously, obviously – it's a plant – but…
The Thermostat That Smelled Terrible
Under those impossibly early cucumbers there was a pile of horse manure. Manure for the Victorian country house table in…