
Cold snaps and unseasonably warm spells have played havoc with my garden. But now it’s time to get to work – and I have a few ideas My endeavour to keep our new small Hampshire garden low-...
During the cool days of spring, sprouting plants need extra help to ensure they make it through to the summer During that gorgeous spring of the first lockdown, my partner would joke that, whil...
LANGSTONE, HAMPSHIRE: The pond is almost devoid of life, apart from several of these greenish-grey segmented worms burrowed into the silt at the bottom My wildlife pond has been leaking and, af...
Sowing seeds and discussing the shape of the plot means that spring is really here The equinox tomorrow. British summertime next week. Gardens unleashed. It will soon be safe to sow spring thin...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/19/warmer-days-bring-the-promise-of-growth
The Catholic church | Spade confusion | Junior doctors’ pay | Pardon my English | T-shirt slogans Your editorial (13 March ) claims that Pope Francis champions “the marginal, peripheral and...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/pope-francis-is-no-champion-of-women
The longer, warmer days mean seeds sown later will catch up with the struggling seedlings that were started off in January There comes a time in March when, for a few blissful days, it feels as...
We would like to speak to people in the UK who have had an artificial lawn fitted amid a rise in sales of plastic grass Artificial grass has become increasingly popular since the pandemic with ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/tell-us-does-your-uk-home-have-a-plastic-lawn
My former tutor John Bramble, who has died aged 78, was one of a group of Latinists who, between the late 1960s and 80s, used new critical approaches to rejuvenate the study of ancient Latin text...
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/14/john-bramble-obituary
My sons’ festering protein shake beakers have been living outside for months, part science experiment, part artwork – and don’t forget pure laziness and passive aggression After a brief F...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/how-long-ignore-revolting-garden-mess
Returning to the Danish house, and it’s clear the flora and fauna have been busy March 12, the day before Mum’s birthday. While Dudley was the king of his vegetable patch, his orchard and c...
My friend Christine Wilson, who has died aged 78 of a heart attack, was a fellow traveller in setting up one of Norwich’s first park friends’ groups. Christine was born in Berkhamsted, Hert...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/10/christine-wilson-obituary
While recovering from cancer, an amateur photographer found solace capturing the insects – including his stunning signature ‘take off’ shots Five years ago, at summer’s end, Andrew Fuse...
Many vegetables can be started off indoors or in a propagator now – and planted out once the risk of freezing to death is finally over After what feels like the longest and coldest winter I c...
Fancy having a go at bonsai? Look online Ten years ago I found myself filming in a sleepy suburb of Chang Mai, northern Thailand, making a television series on the world’s most expensive ingre...
Welcome March, the true beginning of the gardening year March! The start of the gardening year. Allotmenteers trickle back, attracted by the light and an itch for sowing seed. It’s the month...
Royal Horticultural Society links spread of orchard infections to heatwave with trees still at risk The UK’s fruit trees are under threat as a result of the climate crisis because plant disea...
Is pampas grass only for swingers and can you ignore cacti? We separate the weeds from the chaff • 10 house myths debunked In our warming climate, that blazing, south-facing garden may now s...
If the snowdrop is a Victorian nightie, an iris is a cocktail dress that offers a dollop of pizzazz on a colourless March morning Every year, it’s the same: I am caught out by the violet flas...
Spawning sites in east and south-west will need unusually wet spring for tadpoles to survive The recent warm spell brought the first sightings of frog spawn in Bedfordshire, but amateur recorde...
Pond life | No shortage of tomatoes | Mark Spencer | Johnson’s jugs | Letter getter My family suggests that my frogspawn records over the last 15 years are a sign of eccentricity, so I was de...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/waiting-first-frogspawn-of-spring