The early spring weather has brought on the nettle crop a treat – to the frustration of gardeners, but the delight of foragers. Not, I must admit, that I have done much foraging – although some of the delicate young leaves on Hampstead Heath yesterday evening did look quite …
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Cut government red tape…
As many of you will probably know, the natural health industry (makers of herbal, homeopathic, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines, nutritional supplements etc) have been fighting a bruising and often unsuccessful battle with Brussels for some years over the the regulation of natural …
Allergen-free gardening – we wish…
Spurred on by our recent burst of unseasonally summer weather – and an email from from Laura Antebi who is coming to stay while she exhibits her wonderful horses, my mind has turned once more the Chelsea Flower Show. Every year I set off on press day with my good friend Anne …
Pink Slime…
Last week's final despatch of the shortlisted products in the FreeFrom Skincare Awards to our Beauty Bible volunteers for month-long intensive testing sessions has freed me up to to check out the huge pile of interesting emails and news items that have arrived in my in-box over …
Boris….
Bluebells may be bursting forth a month earlier than usual but, maybe thanks to the south-eastern 'drouth', there is little happening in the garden beyond some early flowering japonica and forsythia, so it seemed a good moment to give Boris his moment in the sun. Not, to be …