Most people think the garden has gone to sleep now and all the important jobs bar those mundane ones like raking leaves and cutting back herbaceous borders are all that are left to do. Apart from taking stock of what worked, what needs to be moved or removed as the case may be and of course bulb planting for spring, there are still some fun jobs that you can undertake, and I hope to do these with my gardening course this month. The task I look forward to most is taking hardwo

Each spring, I take my gardening class to visit the National Botanic Gardens to see what’s looking good and we typically enjoy the first signs of spring from bulbs to early flowering shrubs and if we’re lucky we might find the cherry trees in bloom. Alas, this time round it was not to be due to the delays brought about by the recent snowfall and of course the fact that we landed on one of the wettest days of the month. Some might just load up on delicious treats in the restau

In the late 1980's the Benetton Foundation, based in Treviso in Italy was established to promote research focusing on the surrounding landscape with an emphasis on cultural and natural heritage. Initially concentrating on the local landscape, the focus of the researchers expanded with the establishment of the International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens in 1990. Each year a group of esteemed judges from the fields of landscape architecture, art history, geography and horticul