Louise Tomlin shares her passion for growing herbs, they add some extra zest and for minimal effort they give you a big bang for your buck! I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been making an effort to grow more veg in my garden since the first lockdown – strange isn’t it, how long ago that now […]Read More

Louise Tomlin suggests that by being eco-friendly and making changes in our everyday gardening, we can benefit people, animals and theplanet. When Thought Leaders like Greta Thunberg or Sir David Attenborough urge everyone to take action on climate change, I hope we are listening. We have been witnessing extreme unseasonal temperatures, storms, gales and floods in recent […]Read More

Louise Tomlin welcomes spring into the garden and highlights some of her favourite flowering trees. Hello blossoms! It’s difficult to imagine the arrival of spring being more welcome than this one is in 2021. Personally I don’t think I’ve ever been so pleased to see the daylight hours increasing. There’s a moment when you look […]Read More

Louise Tomlin offers suggestions for lifting your spirits and brightening up your winter garden with flowering scented shrubs. It can be tough to find things to lift your spirits in the depths of winter. The cold weather, dark mornings and evenings, and let’s be honest some pretty dark days too, whether it’s the depressing news […]Read More

Louise Tomlin takes a look at planting spring bulbs and encouraging the gardeners of the future… I hope you are all doing okay as things continue to be difficult for everyone? At least there’s a glimmer of hope on the horizon, all I’m going to say is my fingers are firmly crossed. I’ve been looking […]Read More

Louise Tomlin takes a look at restricitng your use of colour to only white flowers to create a sense of harmony and elegance… There’s no getting away from the fact that 2020 has been strange for all of us, the pandemic means having to get used to new rules that change on an almost weekly […]Read More

Louise Tomlin takes a look at garden related topics. This time this time it’s the unexpected benefits of lockdown in ‘putting on a brave front…’ There can’t be many of us that would say that their life over the last few months hasn’t changed much. We’ve all had to modify our behavior to a certain […]Read More

Louise Tomlin takes a look at garden related topics.This time she’s been checking out a ‘miraculous’ garden in Dubai… I’ve been fortunate to visit Asia and the United Arab Emirates again over this last winter. Although in light of the recent scares over the spread of the Coronavirus, some may say are you sure you […]Read More

Louise Tomlin takes a look at garden related topics.This time she’s picked four of her favourite plants for you to try growing this year. Happy New Year and welcome to 2020 We’re not only in a new year but a brand new decade, which hopefully will mean we are all full of positive energy and that […]Read More

Louise Tomlin takes a look at garden related topics. This time she’s offering us a blast of colourful blooms to cure the mid-winter blues. I was thinking about what to focus on for this December/January issue of F & L News, I guess there’s a lot of festive stuff going on for most people, like […]Read More