Andrew Steens

In the darkest depths of winter there is nowhere in the garden that I’d rather be than cooped up snugly in my greenhouse. It can...

The onset of autumn heralds the flowering of many orchids; glorious flowers that last for weeks, bringing delightful colour points to the garden. Although I’m...

Easter Sunday morning saw me out in the garden with a lit candle. However, it was not a celebration of the heavenly occasion, but something...

Red and green are the traditional colours of Christmas, a tradition that may actually date back to the pre-Christian Roman festival of Saturnalia, when wreaths...

November is the traditional time for that standby of the ornamental garden, the rose, to be at its best. I would have to say that...

This may well be the wettest spring I can recall, however, I do have a solution. It is well known amongst garden writers that they...

Avocados have been in the news a fair bit lately; a record high fruit price, thieves raiding orchards and more information about just how good...

We hear a lot about climate change these days and the effects are becoming noticeable, even in our daily living, with ever increasing temperatures breaking...

At this time of year, as the sun sinks lower on the horizon and shadows lengthen, my thoughts turn to pruning of evergreen hedges, ornamental...

I must confess, aside from picking, bottling and preserving the bounty from my garden, it gets very little attention at this time of year, and...