The people behind HedgePlot
Every guide here is written, tested and signed by a person. Four regulars, no ghostwriters.
Curtis Vale Lead writer
Twelve years growing on balconies, with more failures than successes. he writes only what has been tested at home.
- Maintaining tools: for a first attempt
- Watering can capacity: standard, rhythm, floor
- Saucers and feet: it isn't actually complicated
- Choosing bypass pruners: an honest three-month record
- Garden gloves that last: the few lines you need
- Are grow lights worth it: breaking the problem apart
- Reviving a mail-order plant: what you only learn by doing
- Shading for summer heat: when to change approach
Harriet Lowell Contributing editor
Landscape design background in small spaces. she flags light and weight limits inside reviving a mail-order plant.
- Storing kit tidily: out of the misconceptions
- When to mist: why it keeps failing
- An apron with pockets: an honest three-month record
- Sterilising blades: an honest three-month record
- How much a shelf holds: standard, rhythm, floor
- Getting a cactus to flower: why it keeps failing
- Keeping a succulent record: out of the misconceptions
- Restricting water in winter: it isn't actually complicated
Maeve Donnelly Staff writer
Eight years writing gardening features, against treating plants as decor. she keeps them alive first, then beautiful.
- Repotting mat: when to change approach
- Using a pruning saw: for a first attempt
- Budgeting for tools: an honest three-month record
- Sizes of hand trowels: breaking the problem apart
- Specifying a grow light: what you only learn by doing
- Watering methods compared: key points and exceptions
- When grafting makes sense: breaking the problem apart
- The right grit-to-soil ratio: why it keeps failing
Rosalind Kerr Regular contributor
Former nursery and flower-shop work, familiar with how varieties behave. she focuses on choosing and timing.
- Which power tools earn space: when to change approach
- Plant labels that survive: key points and exceptions
- Ties and supports: for a first attempt
- The beginner's minimum kit: what you only learn by doing
- Nozzle types for sprayers: breaking the problem apart
- The risk of open-air growing: key points and exceptions
- Recognising dormancy: standard, rhythm, floor
- Reading when to water: when to change approach