Hedge your bets
Every garden needs good boundaries. And while any basic fence can provide shelter and privacy, a well-planted boundary hedge has added benefits of beauty, fragrance, fruit or flowers, and habitat […]
Self-sowers
As the seasons turn, gardens can start looking a bit tired. Not that I’m ageist — there’s as much beauty in seedpods as in spring flowers — but as nights […]
About Hannah Zwartz
Bring on the night
On summer nights, some plants come into their own. Daytime flowers are bold and brash, relying on bright colours to attract pollinating insects; night-blooming flowers are more subtle, white or […]
About Hannah Zwartz
Drink your garden for summer
December for gardeners is a month of lushness: plentiful rain, warm soil and still-lengthening days. Long twilights and early dawns pottering outdoors are my favourite antidote to the stresses of […]
