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I write this in a disguise worthy of Inspector Clouseau as sharing any patisserie related recipes with anyone outside the family isn’t very popular. You…
I write this in a disguise worthy of Inspector Clouseau as sharing any patisserie related recipes with anyone outside the family isn’t very popular. You…
Granted this review is embarrassingly long overdue and severely mistimed, as this book should have found itself in many a Christmas stocking. However, with spring…
There is really no contest. We grow early, summer and autumn fruiting raspberries, but despite the slightly more complicated maintenance routine, summer fruiting varieties are…
Respectful of tradition and formality, yet modern. Challenging of convention, yet comfortably familiar. Fearlessly architectural, yet soft and billowing. Repetitious, yet idiosyncratic. Jacques Wirtz’s private…
Dorothy sussed it. There’s just no place like home. Whether for health, the economy, environmental reasons, breaking the supermarket stranglehold, taste, seasonality or simply for that…
Sways of dazzlingly Helenium ‘Moerheim Beauty’, yet surprisingly the man doesn’t like orange. ‘I am strict about colours’, he explained to Robin Lane Fox1 ‘No orange.…
With temperatures high enough for Mr Softee to retire, the high-summer, thirty four acre spread RHS Hampton Court Flower Show opened its doors,… and a…
Guilty as charged. Despite having an array of brilliant excuses that would surely get me out of detention and shiny stars on my report card,…
Dare I say it? I missed Diairmuid Gavin’s habitually controversial design madness at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. Chelsea is all about the…
And there it is. That terrifying question, conjuring up hot faced, school bench anxieties, ‘Right, time to show me what you’ve learned’. Oozing with horticultural…
She’s back, on Main Avenue with bells on, and the odd dead tree. The award winning garden designer and all round good egg, Jo Thompson…
The secret is all in the dough and the tomato sauce, he says. Pineapple is prohibited, but he assures me that Nutella and banana really…