
12 shrubs for year-round interest in small gardens
The right shrubs give a garden structure and color in every season. These 12 easy shrubs offer flowers, berries, scent or fiery leaves when you need them most.
Garden maintenance and lawn care you can rely on.
Garden maintenance and lawn care you can rely on.

The right shrubs give a garden structure and color in every season. These 12 easy shrubs offer flowers, berries, scent or fiery leaves when you need them most.

Cool weather is the best time for tender, sweet salad leaves. These nine greens grow fast in autumn, shrug off light frost and keep cropping well into winter.

Kitchen scraps and dry leaves can become rich, crumbly compost in around a month. Here is the simple hot-composting routine we use, even on a small terrace.

Neem, soap, garlic and chilli can deal with most common garden pests without harsh chemicals. Here are the sprays we rely on, and when to use each one.

Heavy rain is welcome after a long summer, but waterlogged pots, fungal spots and battered seedlings are not. Here is how we get terrace gardens through the monsoon.