Veronica Peerless

1 week ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The idea of bedding plants conjures images of cheerful, brightly coloured annuals such as petunias, busy lizzies, begonias, bedding geraniums and antirrhinums spilling out of summer pots, containers and hanging baskets in gardens, on high streets and in pub gardens. While summer bedding plants give months of colour, they are often compact and brightly coloured, which means that their style can clash a little with the looser, more naturalistic style of gardening that many of us now embrace.

1 month ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

SQUIRREL_13211971What prompted you to write the book? I’m a great sci-fi fan and I’ve always been interested in how we will grow food in space and on other celestial bodies. Films are great at creating futuristic landscapes, and for depicting life-support systems using biomaterial and creating closed-loop systems in space, so this sparked my interest in finding out whether real life dictates what we see in sci-fi films or vice-versa.

1 month ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The Chelsea Flower Show is of course a showcase of the best in garden design, and the expertise and big budgets on display can leave gardeners wondering how on earth they can translate the ideas at the show into their own smaller spaces.

1 month ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The gardens may steal the glory at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, but for many people, it's all about the plants. If you do a few circuits of the gardens and the Great Pavilion, you will begin to notice the same plants popping up here and there, in different ways.

1 month ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The Chelsea Flower Show is in full swing and the Gardens Illustrated team has been at the show, scouting out interesting features and ideas. Here are five interesting things to look out for around the Chelsea showground today, chosen by our commissioning editor, Veronica.