Big ideas for small spaces
Big plants and objects such as containers make a small space seem bigger whereas lots of small ones just make it feel cluttered
Some of you may be aware that as well as contributing to these pages and making television programmes about gardens and gardening, I also write books. In fact, I probably spend more hours of my working life writing books than everything else put together. The book I am working on at the moment – which will not come out until September next year – is a first gardening book. Aimed not at children but adults who are perhaps not readers of this publication (yet) and do not watch Gardeners’ World but have, for the first time, access to their own plot and want to make it nice.
It is more important to ask the right questions than to search for the conventional right answers
People criticise ‘nice’ as a weak word, but I use it advisedly because when you start out with a garden, with no previous knowledge or experience, you
