Recent articles by Penny Woodward
Tree marigold
Flowers provide bright splashes of colour for many months these bright blooms smell amazing, too!
Safe shredding
If you have a garden full of trees, shrubs and vigorously growing perennials, all of which need to be pruned back, a shredder will come in handy.
The sweetest thing
Did you know you can grow stevia in your garden? Stevia rebaudiana is a tender perennial that grows best in humid, wet environments.
Edible flowers
Edible flowers add colour and texture to your patch and flavour to your cooking. You can start with borage, marigolds and violets.
Tips for preserving garlic
the following tips are ways to preserve garlic for longer storage and later use, but also some alternative ways to use garlic once it sprouts.
Herb hedges you can grow yourself
Lavender can planted so that it makes a hedge that will provide a beautiful scent as well as nectar for pollinators.
Statuesque angelica
Choose your spot carefully before planting angelica as it quickly grows to a metre across and more than two metres high when in flower.
Flowers for late winter and spring colour
Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.
Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits
Plant kiwi fruit vines in spring and reap the benefits for decades.
Modern heirloom tomatoes
Heirloom tomato seeds have many advantages especially as they are non-hybrid plants from which you can collect seeds and regrow plants that generally grow true to type.
Poppy planting time
Planting poppy seed takes a little care but when it blooms it's an absolute joy!