Adam Kelly making coffee at Haskins Garden centre

Business

Garden centres up their coffee game…

Haskins Snowhill Garden Centre’s coffee aficionado Adam Kelly has recently won the regional heats of Costa Coffee UK’s Barista of the Year competition, progress to the UK and Ireland final.

Spring floral decoration by Butter Wakefield

Lifestyle

Floral spring celebration

Instagram is awash with beautiful images of floral spring decorations, but there’s one instagram account that always seems to trump the floral parade… Butter Wakefield

Thomas Pearson of Tom's Yard

One to watch

Thomas Pearson of Tom’s Yard

The talent behind Tom’s Yard, importer of hand-made beautiful garden pottery from Crete, Tuscany and since recently, the UK.

Artisan

For the love of pomology

Over the centuries, pomology, the study of fruit, fruit growing and orchard management has given rise to beautiful and intriguing works of literature and art.

Ellen Wilmott

Worth a listen

Sandra Lawrence on Ellen Wilmott

Author of ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: the extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius’, Sandra Lawrence sheds more light on the intriguing plantswoman and her garden at Warley Place.