You can have deep marginals that happily sit in 15-30cm of water and shallow marginals – try Japanese iris, or bog plants that grow where land and water meet. The canna lily loves this environment.

Peace lilies are popular houseplants for good reason: The tropical, white-flowering plant does well in the low light and low humidity most of us have in our homes. Knowing how often to water a ...

The trick is to “let the plants water themselves”. No, this doesn’t mean they go to the tap themselves - it still needs a bit of human intervention. Rather than tipping water on the top of ...