Tales of a Kitchen Herbwife

This is the lean time of year for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Spring is so close you can smell the new growth but flowering blac...

When we moved into our current house in 1980, we were pleased to see the garden was bordered on three sides with hedges. Two were hawthorn a...

After twenty years of reading herb books, it takes a lot to make me excited when something new is published. Henriette Kress’ first book wri...

The past few weeks have been very strange weather for the time of year – incredibly warm and sunny. My garden is very sheltered thanks to tw...

This post has been written as part of the February UK Herbarium Blog party. You can find the list of other articles here . Tree bark is no...

We have an international flavour to this month's UK Herbarium blog party. Ruth has joined us for the first time to talk about her love o...

When Sarah posted on the Down to Earth forum asking if anyone wanted to write an article about trees as part of the February UK Herbarium b...