LONG before it became trendy to recycle or buy second-hand, most of us were doing just that when buying homes and gardens, and we still are. If we are lucky, taking over someone else’s property, means getting some well-sited, established trees, pretty shrubs and useful hard landscaping. Our feature gardener and his family decided on [...]

THIS JOB can be dangerous – at least to our household budget. I had somehow pruned my list of  ‘absolutely must-have’ roses for a possible new garden down to just a dozen (not counting climbers). Then I read of the very experienced rose gardeners’ favourites (page 22). They describe some too-tempting, highly disease-resistant roses I [...]