To be fair, landscape fabric has its place. Unfortunately, it’s widely misused in most home landscape applications, where it does more harm than good in ornamental beds and around perennials and crops ...

In the search for a "no maintenance" plant, daylily is about as close as one can get. Indeed, it often is mused "daylilies ...

With starry blooms that seem to last all summer long, it is only natural that astrantia makes it to number one on this list.

As well as their good looks, umbellifers are also famously attractive to a diverse range of pollinating insects ...

To grow these cutting garden flowers in your garden, she recommends planting them about 30cm apart in full or partial sun. They cope with drought – "so an ideal plant for today’s climate," she adds.