Ellen Mary: Easy cost-saving gardening tips for beginners

We talk to the gardener and broadcaster who shares the secrets of creating a room outside that will make us happy

'Lawns don’t have to be perfectly manicured; in fact, they are better for the environment if left to grow longer.'

There is a moment in a person’s life, when the void in which you plunged a small plant or pinched in a seed, responds. Leaning in, eyes wide, it generally stirs the words, “I’ve discovered gardening”. 

Growing things remains an undiscovered country for many of us.