How to grow onions and shallots organically from seed | Jack Wallington
Growing onions and shallots organically from seed is easy, cheap and fun. In this post I will detail each step from seed...
Garden Design
How to grow hardwood cuttings | Jack Wallington
Hardwood cuttings are an easy way of taking pieces of woody stem of shrubs, some trees and climbers to grow new plants. ...
How to prune salvias and when to do it – three pruning groups | Jack Wallington
A group of plants I grow a lot in my own garden and in my clients’ garden designs is the perennial Salvias. Salvias are ...
How to grow Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’ from seed | Jack Wallington
A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’. Grown ...
How to grow organic tomatoes including heirloom tomatoes | Jack Wallington
Tomatoes sit atop everyone’s grow your own lists, and if they don’t, they should! Relatively easy to grow – with a few q...
Early spring flowering plants at Stillingfleet Lodge Garden and Nursery, York | Jack Wallington
Stillingfleet Lodge, on the outskirts of York, is a garden that has been managed organically for wildlife for the best p...
How to create carpets of colour, Cluny House Gardens, Scotland | Jack Wallington
One sunny afternoon in late-April, while working on a remote landscape design in Scotland, I took the opportunity to pop...
Peat free plants at Tissington Nursery, Peak District | Jack Wallington
“People come to us specifically because we grow in peat free compost,” says Mairi Longdon, who runs Tissington Nursery i...
11 Things at Chelsea Flower Show 2023 | Jack Wallington
It feels like the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has finally found its feet again after having the rug pulled from under it by ...
The Farm, Yorkshire | Jack Wallington
In February 2021 Chris and I found ourselves moving to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire where Chris grew up. We’d been pl...