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On a positive note, however, she has seen the spread of blight halted in gardens such as RHS Wisley, achieved by the removal of affected sections of hedges and limbs of infected plants. If you’re keen to replant, she recommends quarantining new purchases: covering plants with clear plastic to produce the humidity that blight enjoys. If you’re sure the plants are unaffected, then replant, but once they are in and growing, reduce trimming to just once a year to form a more open plant, and use less nitrogen feed to promote tougher, hardier leaves, which the fungus finds difficult to penetrate.

The exhibition runs at Tate Liverpool until 13 January 2013. COM RILL - DAVID HARBER LTD SKY ARTS IGNITION - CHARLIE COLEMAN, INFINITE 3D ANN-MARIE’S MINI BLOG LEFT Celeriac takes about six months to mature and can be left in the ground and harvested from October through to March, as and when required. BOTTOM LEFT Versatile winter root vegetables, celeriac, parsnip and Jerusalem artichokes can be used in almost any combination and quantity. Vary according to your personal preferences and cropping.

Despite the heavy scent of pinks and carnations, a symbolic fountain, arbours, sweet bird song and heraldic devices, it failed to sway her. S The intricate weaving hedges of a knot garden, set within a square, perfectly illustrate this style. The wealthy could look down from their privy apartments onto a green chessboard divided by formal walks, with each square patterned by plantings in knots or arabesques. Like a good portrait, the garden was carefully framed by walls, trellis fencing or hedges, which enclosed beds fashioned into squares and rectangles, and also contained the aromatic and heady scents of the herbs planted there.