Alex Valk - garden writer

Gardener’s World: disgusting plants and fungi

Gardener’s World: Weird Plants

The English Garden: a showcase of sustainability

The English Garden: Nigel Dunnett’s 2026 RHS Chelsea garden

Discover the colourful mix of ornamental and edible plants in Tom Massey and Je Ahn’s Avenade Intelligent Garden

How are RHS Chelsea’s show garden designer’s responding to our changing climate? Alexandra Valk finds out.

Show border diary part 1: Garden Folk Magazine

Review: The 36V Flymo EasiStore 340R - light, quiet and surprisingly powerful - ideal for a smaller garden: The English Garden

Grow like a chef: The English Garden

A beginner’s guide to making compost - 26 Mar 2024 - Amateur Gardening Magazine

Community-led libraries sound warm and cosy — the reality is anything but: Dispatch

Things that creep and crawl: Radicle

Covid booster for horticulture careers: Hort Week

The Lupin March Mailer

Comfortable, practical workwear should be a right - not a privilege: Substack

Please help to save my city: Substack

How to make compost

Digital Wellness’ Is Here To Save Your Mental Health if a Screen-Free Life Isn’t Feasible—Here’s What Happened When I Tried It: Well+Good

The Lupin January Mailer

The Lupin 2023 Round-Up

Garden Folk Magazine - diary of a first time designer

Plant broodiness and morning sickness

The Lupin December Mailer

The Lupin November Mailer

The Lupin October Mailer

The Lupin September Mailer

The Lupin August Mailer

First they came for my sunflowers

The Mill Garden and Hill Close Gardens

November in the garden

Free (or very cheap) plants

Why schools should ditch phonics and teach kids about plants

Want to stop the plague of plastic grass and paved front gardens? Stop blaming individuals and take the fight to Westminster

Running Through Grief Helped Me Cope With My Dad's Death | Well+Good

New garden, no clue? How to get started

On Grief and Gardening

Garden Organic, Ryton

Gardeners World Live (2): Money money money – how crowdfunding saved our show border

A strange new love for gravel: May’s gardening diary

Check out my substack: Rants about plants

April diary: Before the tulip hangover…

March diary: Wilting wallflowers, reluctant tomatoes and tulips in triumph

Space invaders: tackling another weed filled gravel bed

February diary: Brilliant irises, dreadful weather

Radicle: Pretty ugly histories: the dark past of ornamental orchids

January diary: Pruning, bulb obsessing, and reluctantly shifting the leaves

Decolonising Kew: The war of the words is on

December diary: Bastard squirrels, bulb sales, and generally hiding from the garden

November diary: Bulb throwing, leaf raking and magic mushroom spotting

Christmas gift guide

Radicle: For peat’s sake: The dirty fight over your compost

Why I garden

Lily Beatles and other horrible little beasts

Lockdown lilies

Daffodils and the end of winter