There's nothing worse than nosy neighbours peeping into your garden, especially if you live in a terraced or semi-detached ...

These 'hedges on stilts' come in various heights up to 3.5 metres and are available in Photina, Portuguese Laurel, Evergreen Oak, or Holly, all of which come highly recommended. Portuguese Laurel ...

Winter wind is often more damaging than cold weather for UK gardens - here's how to stop high airflow wreaking havoc on your garden ...

heuchera and hardy geranium groundcover and hedges of Portugal laurel. The RHS is also predicting people will be growing more edible perennials, which are low maintenance, produce lots of fruit ...

heuchera and hardy geranium groundcover and hedges of Portugal laurel. Honeyberries are similar to blueberries and require less effort (Tim Sandall/RHS/PA) The RHS is also predicting people will ...

Good hedges include beech, deciduous berberis such as Berberis thunbergii and hornbeam, ideally mixed with up to 50 per cent evergreens including Elaeagnus x ebbingei, Portugal laurel and pyracantha.

Hedge funds are having a moment. Will it last? In a year when everything seemed to go up, the industry generated some of its strongest, and most consistent, returns in a decade. The big question ...

A white-hot runup in risky assets made life miserable for anyone buying into the frenzy of fresh products that Wall Street was hawking to hedge and diversify. Three weeks into this year’s market ...

We test each hedge trimmer on conifers, deciduous, laurel and privet hedges, seeing how long it takes and how easy it is to use. With cordless hedge trimmers, we also check how long the battery lasts ...