Naomi Slade

Journalist, author and garden designer

Naomi Slade is a journalist, author and designer specialising in gardening, environment and lifestyle. A regular contributor to magazines including Gardens Illustrated and The English Garden and RHS The Garden, she has a long-running column in Garden News magazine, based on her own small garden and in 2022 she won the Garden Media Guild Practical Journalist of the Year Award.

Weird and wonderful: you might think these amazing fly-eating plants are too exotic for your garden, but you’d be wrong

With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy.

The best elderflowers to grow and harvest for cordial (which also look really good in the garden)

Elders are easy-to-grow shrubs and small trees, best known for the cordial and wine made from their starry flowers and berries, but with newer cultivars now offering excellent ornamental qualities for the garden too

The perfect spring garden with bulbs and blossom galore with expert tips on how to make yours look this good

Alongside his Midlands nursery, John Massey has created a glorious garden that has been allowed to mature gradually

It's wild garlic season so you need to be careful of these plants - but they can look great in the garden too

The lush, marbled foliage of arums brightens up dark corners, in the dry shade under trees or alongside snowdrops. Here's how to grow them.

A well-behaved alternative to bamboo, these grass-like evergreens are great year-round

Defying easy categorisation, restios are evergreen plants that offer eye-catching details, attractive stems and grow rapidly in spring