Madeleine Howell

About Me

Journalist and editor with experience working across magazines, newspapers and digital platforms, with over five years' experience as a lifestyle writer for The Telegraph.

In my previous role I was assistant editor at The Resident, Archant's portfolio of London lifestyle magazines. 

HOW TO GROW AND ARRANGE DAZZLING DAHLIA DISPLAYS

It’s a tuberous rooted perennial native to Mexico and known for its showy flower heads, providing late-summer colour through to the end of October and the first frosts. It could only be a dahlia, the fashionable bloom currently at its dramatic best. “Dahlias used to be seen as old-fashioned, but in the last 10 years they’ve had a renaissance, in part thanks to their social-media appeal,” says Thomas Broom-Hughes, director of horticulture at Petersham Nurseries in Richmond. Broom-Hughes holds the