Not everyone is a fan of blousy scented or indeed colourful flowers. But how can you resist the lure and temptation of the beautiful Sweet Pea family? I have been privilaged enough to be introduced to the Sweet Pea family by winning some seeds in a competition that I entered and forgot about a couple [...]

Hi all, I will be running an Olympic gardening session for the school in a couple of weeks time, does anyone have any interesting and inventive ideas that I can try out? Jane

We will be Supporting Riverside Shepherd Huts this weekend, and will be on their stand all day on Sunday at the Malvern Spring Show. Most exciting news is that they have just won a Silver for their Stand with Cat Slater from Stratford Business Forum. Pop along and see us and get some plants at [...]

Did some seed sowing with my local nursery school today. It was lovely, the children loved handling the compost & seeds. Really fun work- there again tom!!

Things you never knew about fruit, veg and fungi!: Potatoes do NOT count as one of your Five-a-Day. Mushrooms, being neither fruit nor veg but classed as Fungi, DO count as one of your five-a-day. A fruit smoothie contains more sugar than a fizzy drink. Eating fruit is much better for you than drinking it. [...]