Once you wade through YouTube's make-up tutorials and music videos, and locate the search button, you can type in the name of a garden, a style or concept, a gardener or designer, or just the question you might have. The results will range from brilliantly shot and informative to poor, but slow down and weed through them – you’ll find what you need, I promise!

Click through for some of my favourite channels across many different avenues of gardening….

Recently I wrote to some of my growing mentors and asked them how their gardening passion has benefited their life. By and large, every reply, no matter how brief or lengthy, returned the same response. Collectively, they spoke of the therapy found in caring for their plants, and the satisfaction in the resulting produce and atmosphere – all resting on the profound positivity in connecting with nature.

Click through to explore the studies and books that reflect the positivity that gardening and growing and inject into our lives - particularly in such challenging global times!

The beautiful scents that drift around our garden are entirely focused on attracting pollinators and simply a happy side effect for us!
Read on for some plants to add to your beds to up the fragrant factor!

Annuals are like your garden’s party earrings.

With their life cycle running over just a single year, this makes them a flash in the pan compared to returning perennials, but their good looks and cheer certainly make up for it.

Click through to read about my personal favourites!

Do you belong to any clubs? Ever considered exploring the advantages of horticultural societies, garden clubs or volunteering at your local community garden?
Let me run you through what I have learned.