Category: Out Of Doors

It’s time to find the first mushrooms and your crop of hairy bittercress

April sees the start of mushroom season, and expert forager Carl Mintern says you definitely have hairy bittercress in your garden right now. As we...

The kids are back in town!

Far more than your local garden centre, Thorngrove offers something rich and precious for the whole community, says Kelsi-Dean Buck. Spring has well and truly...

Garden jobs for April

Now is the time to start planning your hanging baskets, says Sherborne gardener Pete Harcom - but keep watching out for frosts. April.. at last!...

A gust of fresh air!

Activity gathers pace as the roses come out, playing their own part in the constant cycle of growing and moving, says Thorngrove’s Kelsi-Dean Buck. Well...

Go on, give it a grow!

Prices of imported flower have leapt 40%, so here’s tips on how to grow your own – and it’s so satisfying and simple, says...

Garden jobs for March | 2022

Don’t rush to buy tender plants from garden centres until the spring frost is over, warns Sherborne gardener Pete Harcom. The clocks will go forward...

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Hunting humans for fun

Lifelong kennelman Jeremy Whaley’s hunting narrative shifts from tradition to innovation, prioritising the hounds’ skill over the hunt’s end ‘I was deeply anti-hunting,’ says Jeremy...

A bee utopia on Pentridge Hill

From a wild hilltop to a suburban garden, Jane Adams watches the quiet lives of Dorset’s snow leopards: the ashy mining bee From Pentridge Hill,...

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