Black garden twine

Please tell us what is your favourite colour for garden twine – ie for tying up plants. We favour black. Most gardeners, judging from what is available in the garden centers, prefer a lurid bright green.

Fluffy hen garden sculpture

. I like to see animals in gardens – but so do foxes. So if you want to keep hens you must either have a cage, a high wall or a nice fluffy model of a hen. Take it from me, the latter choice is the least trouble.

Colourful stone circular garden table

. Gardens need colour and colourful materials provide an anchor for arranging colour compositions with plants. This circular table is made of natural stones which have been fused to make a conglomerate and then sliced-and-polished to make a table. There are few better ways of getting a ’splash of red’ which glows even in the coldest weather.

Wire wild boar sculpture

. Steel wire is very well suited to garden sculpture. If you had it indoors, it would always look much the same, except for getting a little dustier each year. In the garden it keeps changing, with rain, sun, cobwebs and everything else which happens in gardens. And the rusty iron is an excellent foil for a wide range of leaves and flowers.