Ancient Orange trees

In the Castle Gardens at Freyr on the Meuse in southern Belgium, rumoured to be among the oldest specimens in Europe. Is it true?

Green Roof

The garage roof goes green. The plants are alpine strawberries which should send out runners and form an evergreen mat.

Forest Gardening Course

Zanthoxylum schinifolium, the Szechuan pepper, a handsome, hardy small tree with peppercorn berries.

Forest Gardening Course

Acacia dealbata with a hedge of Eleanus commutata in the background. Both supply nitrogen to the soil allowing neighbouring plants to thrive. The eleagnus allow has edible berries

Forest Gardening Course 16/17th August

The Agroforestry Research Trust in Devon. The hedge of Eleagnus and Rubus tricolour serves as a windbreak as well as providing fruit.

RHS Garden Rosemoor

You can warm you hands on the colour. Roger Webster's new garden at RHS Rosemoor, Devon.

Edinburgh

Stimulating immersion in culture during Edinburgh visit. The amazing Landform Ueda by Charles Jenks in the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Tracey Emin's beautiful bird 'Roman Standard'. And the allotments at the Dean Gallery, on the wall at the back are Ian Hamilton Finlay's poems carved in stone.