#gardening

By Patricia Jordan I collect seeds all year round, often sharing them with my gardening friends. The early flowering annuals like poppies and cerinthe have many seeds. Poppies shed their ...

However there is always something to admire Gardeners are weather watchers. For them it can be too cold, too hot, too wet or too dry and there is always something ...

By Patricia Jordan The Royal Horticultural Society in the UK suggests slugs and snails should no longer be classed as pests, despite the fact that the organisation has the most ...

By Patricia Jordan February already and what lot of rain we have had since the start of the year! It’s all good for the dams, aquifers and wells, but ...

by Patricia Jordan Another strange year is coming to a close. Thankfully the garden has been my salvation again to help me through it. Having not had much to divert ...

By Patricia Jordan I am always being asked why some fruit and nut trees have enormous crops one year and barely any the next. This is known as ‘biennial bearing’, ...

It’s amazing how plants reproduce themselves By Patricia Jordan Some plants throw out underground rhizomes, which pop up away from the mother plant. Plumbago is a good example of ...

Climbers come to the fore With temperatures rising even more rapidly, this is a difficult time in our gardens. In high summer plants scarcely grow and it is not a ...

At 300 metres elevation in the foothills of the Troodos mountains and in a frost pocket, I am always surprised that I can get anything slightly sub-tropical to grow at all. ...

Loss of habitat and use of pesticides are harming these pollinators without which we are doomed By Patricia Jordan Early last month as I was sitting on a bench in ...

By Patricia Jordan The weather certainly keep you guessing in Cyprus, but at least April is here and although there may be some April showers, which are all to the ...