Tomorrow! A Citizen’s Assembly of Support in New York City

We are preparing for our spring/summer garden here in North Texas. Every winter our dining room is turned into an indoor garden. We only sprout certain crops indoors and it is usually a variety of peppers and tomatoes. We use a special soil to give our crops a boost. For nutrients, we use a mixture of compost, peat moss, potting soil and native soil. We mainly use the peat moss for moisture retention. The final thing we add is native soil, which is sand. This helps with drainage. The formula i

It was the end of February. We were boiling maple sap and setting up our first-ever mini greenhouse. The seeds had arrived from our catalogs, and the starter soil sat beckoning me from the edge of the kitchen table. Surely we could plant some seeds now? In our part of Wisconsin, the typical last frost date is around Mother’s Day. I don’t know what I was thinking. Fast forward to the end of April, and the greenhouse in our living room was bursting with enormous tomatoes, lively cab

Thorncroft Clematis launch three new Clematis varieties at the Chelsea Flower Show. Norfolk-based Thorncroft Clematis Nursery showed three brand new Clematis for 2016 at Chelsea this week. The three are very different, giving Clematis fans a great choice of unusual flower forms and colours. Beautiful ‘Picotee’ has sumptuous large flowers, each white petal edged with magenta pink to make an eye-catching bloom. It’s an Early Large Flowered Clematis, blooming fr

Seed companies are launching their new flowers for next year in glossy catalogues ready to drop through the letterbox any day now. Fiery red and orange will make sure summer borders sizzle in 2017. Here’s our top 6 new flowers, all easy to grow annuals for the garden. Sweet pea ‘Scarlet Tunic’ A pretty new sweet pea in shades of red was officially christened ‘Scarlet Tunic’ by Chelsea Pensioners, after their distinctive uniform. Mr Fothergill’s, who have already donated more