The leaves of the lime tree, Tilia cordata, are edible when young, and bulk up a salad in this week’s serving for the 52-week salad challenge. Week 16 A brisk walk around the Rye in Wycombe yes...
Heritage vegetables bring colour, taste and variety to your garden where modern cultivars fail. Here are six of the most gorgeous that you can grow. Click on the thumbnails or read the blurb below to...
Fritillaria fanatic Kevin Pratt has grown all the plants available in this genus. So he’s the perfect gardener to debunk the myths and teach F&F readers how to grow really, really good Frit...
How do you design a garden so that it doesn’t look professionally designed? New York designer Brook Klausing shows us how with this smart terrace in Chelsea. The client didn’t want it to ...
Kate Foale introduces F&F readers to Charnwood, her garden. We moved into Charnwood in Nottinghamshire – just south of the River Trent – with our son, David, in August 1987. As time, money ...
Meet the London artist who tags buildings with her own green signature using moss, not spray cans. When a building is left derelict, it normally disappears until the scrawled graffiti tags of vandals...
Claire Sutton from thingswemake adds chickens to her garden. We finally got some chickens! So the thingswemake now includes added eggs. We have just the two for now, although a couple more are being ...
Which pumpkins and squash are you growing this year? Here’s F&F’s long list for the allotment. One of the many wonderful things about having a rather large allotment is that I have th...
Foraging garlic mustard for its edible salad leaves bulks up this week’s serving in the 52-week salad challenge. If, like me, your windowsills are groaning under the weight of plants destined f...
Brassica oleracea ’Crème Chantilly’ is a beautiful new ornamental cabbage on the block with white flowers and white variegated leaves. Kales and cabbages are some of the most architectura...
The Queen Mother’s garden in Caithness survives harsh winter gales in the shelter of a 12ft walled garden. The Castle of Mey has quite a bloody history. It was built by George, the 4th Earl of ...
Gaze at our ginormous gallery of camellia flowers from this week’s RHS London Plant Fair. The Royal Horticultural Society’s Plant Fair plays host to a huge long table of the most beautifu...
The Royal Horticultural Society’s London Plant Fair is a haven for plant lovers looking for unusual blooms. Here are some of the highlights of this year’s show. Walking into one of the RH...
This competition couldn’t really come at a better time. Around about now, the gardening season tips from being rather nicely busy to being pell mell for leather frantic, and there seems no let ...
What a wonderful, hopeful month April is! Fill it with bright, classy flowers such as these. Click on the thumbnails to find out more about each plant.
F&F member Alan Horton blogs on a cheap and surprisingly easy way to grow lavender. Lavenders are popular perennial garden plants found around the world. The varieties found most commonly in the ...
One of the many joyful things about Fennel & Fern’s sister site gardengrab is that it opens up a big opportunity for discovering new blogs. Since the launch, our diet of gardening blogs has...
Green alkanet is a fantastic edible flower that looks great in a spring salad or on puddings. Week 14 There’s no need for me to panic about having enough salad leaves now. I’ve got plenty...
Wayward Plants is the way forward for landscape architecture. They designed this amazing garden for the Google Campus in London. The courtyard is wrapped with a handmade moss wall, watered by clever ...
Don’t have a garden? You can still get a good harvest of vegetables just by growing on your windowsills. Living in a flat with a balcony isn’t the worst thing in the world. For one thing,...
F&F member Rachel Stanley looks at how to recreate famous country gardens for yourself. Many of us love wandering around a National Trust property at the weekend, but if you’re a keen gardener li...
Each year, millions of daffodils come into flower across Hughenden Valley, near High Wycombe. So many people had told me about the bright river of daffodils that flows through Hughenden park in the ...
Viola ‘Sorbet Antique Shades’ is a gorgeous purple-flowered viola perfect for the balcony garden. One of my aims with my lovely balcony garden is to have something, just one little thing,...
Three wonderful fruity drinks from the Lyme Bay Winery go on trial. I was lucky enough to be sent three bottles of wine and cider from the amazing Lyme Bay Winery to review a few weeks ago. They are ...
This garden in Park Slope, Brooklyn, was designed by super-chic Brook Klausing. No wonder then that it has such a neat, smart style. Brook explains to F&F readers how she designed such a sweet, c...
Radishes geminate super-fast, meaning you can eat a super salad of beautifully-coloured microgreens in just a few days. If you ever need a super-quick salad fix, radishes are the way to go. I sowed t...
‘Rococo’ parrot tulips really are the silliest of all flowers. They are the haute couture of tulips: ornate, richly-coloured, demanding. I’ve been bringing these tulips on in my bed...
My little Veronica plant is giving me so much joy on the balcony at the moment. It has the most piercing blue flowers which are set off perfectly by the black Woolly Pocket and the rich green grass. ...
As summer approaches and this unseasonably warm weather becomes the norm (hopefully) our gardens are going to become focal points once more. Whether you like to barbecue or take afternoon tea, read a...
F&F member Margaret Weeds lists herbs that you could plant out now. I love this time of year – seeding out new crops of herbs, flowers and plants to use later in the year is so exciting, but I am...
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