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Plants to choose for the perfect family garden
By Fiona McKim on 11/04/2012 11:05:33
Stimulate your child’s senses with this fragrant flora
Plants to chooseTouch Children love the soft, woolly texture of Stachys byzantina (Iamb's ears), and stipa tenuissima (soft grass) feels quite feathery.Sight Fuchsias are bright and vivid and children adore popping the flower buds. Pansies, daisies
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Cool composting
By Judith Eagle on 20/04/2010 13:30:55
Why waste can be ever so good
spot. If it is sunny, all the better, as sun speeds up the decomposing process. You need a balance of 'greens' and 'browns' to reap the best compost. Greens are wetter and quicker to rot and include vegetable and fruit peelings, tea bags, plant prunings
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The rites of spring
By Kate Donoughue on 23/02/2011 15:48:53
Five spring traditions your family can treasure forever
easy to grow and attract lots of insects to your garden. To ensure little hands have plenty of flowers to pick in the summer, make a wigwam frame and sow two sweet peas directly at the base of each cane. Good Friday is the day potatoes are traditionally
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
By Melissa Viguier on 28/05/2012 18:42:04
For a terrifically tropical family day out, try the brilliant botanic gardens in Edinburgh
can see the plants that make many of our favourite foods and drinks. There are coffee plants, tea bushes, cocoa beans, rice and towering banana trees growing. It reminds me of going on holiday to faraway places, and that moment when the airport doors
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A first-rate holiday in Cyprus
By Junior on 04/08/2011 12:36:11
Cyprus is the perfect location for a holiday with the children
the children run around on the sand. Even the sightseeing is child-friendly, from tombs and archaeological digs to rocky gorges and paddling in mountain streams, and the good news is that a lot of it costs very little. All you need is a hire car – and driving
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The Sleepyhead baby bed – designed with blissful bed-sharing in mind
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 03/01/2012 11:05:26
Lisa Furuland, founder of Enfant Terrible Design of Sweden, shares the inspiration behind her stylish sleep-time innovation the Sleepyhead
out as a familyWhen in London, we love going to places like Petersham Nurseries for lunch. It combines the eating experience with something extra – good food in a beautiful venue, as well as plants and flowers to look at, and space enough for the boys
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Cooking with Raymond Blanc
By Catherine O'Dolan on 07/08/2010 12:11:55
A lifelong love of good food and a rich culinary heritage encouraged Michelin-star chef Raymond Blanc to open his own cookery class to inspire and educate mini chefs
, and I mean a serious amount of food.Our vegetable garden was about a one-and-a-half acres. Actually, my father did very little. The children did all the work – moving stones, preparing the earth, churning it out, watering the plants, and then of course
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Exclusive Interview: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
By Catherine O'Dolan on 15/01/2013 12:50:34
Junior catches up with author Jeff Kinney on his trip to the UK to promote his latest book Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
Let’s start with the obvious question. Are you the wimpy kid? I think in the worst ways I’m the wimpy kid. Greg is the sum of my worst parts. I was more of an average kid. I had my good moments and I had had my bad, and the bad are captured in Greg
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A taste of Thailand
By Junior on 24/08/2011 12:31:50
From rugged rainforests and idyllic sandy shores to stunning cityscapes, Thailand offers a host of opportunities that teach valuable life lessons…
magazine for three years on the trot from 2004–6, sadly we found our meal rather disappointing, saved only by the view and enchanting effect of watching Bangkok’s neon lights twinkling in the night sky.Alarm clock set good and early, we roused the following
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