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Desert Gardens and Living Ocotillo Fences – Fouquieria splendens

I recently discovered a unique garden feature of the desert southwest – the ocotillo fence. The Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) is native to the desert...

How to grow hardwood cuttings | Jack Wallington

Hardwood cuttings are an easy way of taking pieces of woody stem of shrubs, some trees and climbers to grow new plants. It’s done...

How to prune salvias and when to do it – three pruning groups | Jack Wallington

A group of plants I grow a lot in my own garden and in my clients’ garden designs is the perennial Salvias. Salvias are...

How to grow Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’ from seed | Jack Wallington

A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’. Grown among grasses, the foliage dissolves...

How to grow organic tomatoes including heirloom tomatoes | Jack Wallington

Tomatoes sit atop everyone’s grow your own lists, and if they don’t, they should! Relatively easy to grow – with a few quirks –...

Early spring flowering plants at Stillingfleet Lodge Garden and Nursery, York | Jack Wallington

Stillingfleet Lodgeon the outskirts of York, is a garden that has been managed organically for wildlife for the best part of 50 years, recently...

Hart’s Tongue Fern: A Closer Look at Asplenium Scolopendrium

Asplenium scolopendrium is an interesting fern.  It is native to England and the US. If you are growing Hart’s tongue fern in your garden,...

How to create carpets of colour, Cluny House Gardens, Scotland | Jack Wallington

One sunny afternoon in late-April, while working on a remote landscape design in Scotland, I took the opportunity to pop into Cluny House Garden...

The Irresistible Beauty of Native Cuphea Plants

Occasionally, I will get the urge to obsess over a group of plants. I have gone mad for Magnoliasfrenetic for Fothghysterical for Hydrangeabut now...

Peat free plants at Tissington Nursery, Peak District | Jack Wallington

“People come to us specifically because we grow in peat free compost,” says Mairi Longdon, who runs Tissington Nursery in the Peak District, specialising...

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