Articles concerning home and garden, including lifestyle and tips for improvement.
Did you know that you can forage the young leaves off wild blackberries and use them to make tea? It’s actually quite delicious! It’s mid April and the brambles around where I live in Essex, UK have these soft young…
Growing perpetual spinach is one of the easiest ways to get a consistent source of healthy greens from your garden. Except, perpetual spinach, well, it just doesn’t stop. So, unless you love spinach so much that you’ll eat it 5…
If you use social media, you may have encountered a company called Flow Hive selling ‘easy’ beehives with simple valves that open and produce honey from flow frames. For a layperson watching the ads, you’re presented with the idea you…
Looking for the best flowers for photography and flatlay ideas? I’ve photographed dozens of flower varieties for Instagram over the years and these 5 consistently deliver stunning results. Whether you’re new to flatlay photography or want fresh inspiration, these flowers…
More elegant than roses and perfect for filling flowerbeds or creating bridal bouquets, what’s not to love about peonies? If you’re thinking of buying peonies to plant in autumn (the best time for spring blooms year after year) then this…
In the last few weeks, the Telegraph newspaper has been running a series of sponsored posts – paid for by the heat pump industry – to expound the huge benefits of heat pumps. Among the headlines are how heat pumps…
My obsession with Le Creuset began many years ago when I was first exploring alternatives to the chemical non-stick linings in baking trays, frying pans and saucepans. My first ever Le Creuset purchase was the Signature Cast Iron Shallow Casserole……
A tea bath is exactly what it sounds like – putting tea in your bath! After all, we soak ourselves in salts, essential oils, and various bath bombs, bubble solutions, and shower gels, so why not tea too? A tea…
Here are 6 easy spring flowers you can grow from bulbs this year. Flowering from early spring to the beginning of summer, these blooms will bring life back into your garden after winter. Crucially, they are all hardy bulbs that…