Does your garden need a retaining wall? There's no need to resign yourself to having a large stone or concrete eyesore in your yard. Instead, use it as an opportunity to create a waterfall of blooms ...

Every gardener has favourite plants, those varieties that are a must-have every year in the garden. One of mine is the lowly lobelia, a plant that I began using in great profusion in my first garden ...

Were lobelias ever cool? They're the kind of bedding plants my dad and grandad planted to froth out of hanging baskets along with petunias and begonias: now I've grown up I guess I'm meant to prefer ...