Design Ideas

Plants

and your conservatory

We all know that having plants around is beneficial to both body and soul.

We've all seen and envied those lovely displays people manage to create, but how do they do it?

But what kind of plants can and should you grow in your conservatory?

We have found a couple of articles that may help to point you in the right direction.

For more information on this subject you might like to try:

Lets go Gardening

The Palm Centre

Artificial Plants

Pippa Greenwood is one of Britain's leading plant pathologists. She ran the Royal Hortcultural Society's Plant Pathology Department at Wisley in Surrey for eleven years and now lectures on gardening throughout the world.

She has written a number of books including Pippa's Kitchen Garden, Garden Problem Solver, The New Gardener. She has twice won a reference book award from the Garden Writers' Guild, once for Pests and Diseases and once for Pippa Greenwood's Flower Gardener.

She is the Gardeners' Question Time resident "bugs" expert and has been a regular panellist since 1994. She also appears on BBC TV's Gardeners' World, writes regular columns in Amateur Gardening and is The Mirror's gardening correspondent.

Read Pippa's Tips for Survival.

Stephen Anderton

Before turning to writing, Stephen Anderton worked as a professional gardener for over two decades. Perhaps best known for his column in The Times, which has twice won first prize in the Garden Writers’ Guild awards, he also writes regular columns for Garden Inspirations, Garden Answers and Greenfingers.com and contributes to Gardens Illustrated, Country Life, The Garden and the American magazine Horticulture.

His published books include STEPHEN ANDERTON’S GARDEN ANSWERS and REJUVENATING A GARDEN, which was voted Best Practical Gardening Book of the Year 1998. He is a regular guest on British TV and radio programmes and in 2000 his column in Garden Inspirations won him the Inspirational Garden Writer of the Year award.

Stephen is now working with Anglia Television on a series based on his Best Gardens feature in The Times.

Read Stephen's "People in Glass Houses"

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."

John Muir