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If you're looking for some inspiration for your garden, you're in the right place. We can tell you which plants are good for your pond, and which household items are great for your garden. Read articles by some of the UK's gardening experts, and get your gardening motivation here!
Low-maintenance outdoor plants for busy gardeners
Plants are beautiful decorations for your garden, and luckily there are many of those which are easy to care for if you have a busy lifestyle. There are plenty of varieties that don't need staking, frequent deadheading and dividing, complicated pruning, or excessive...
10 Best Plants for Curb Appeal
Its easy to add curb appeal to your home with a carefully chosen plants to decorate your front door and fill your gaden with colour.
A Taste For The Tropics: Creating A Jungle Garden!
If summer holidays to far-off places feel out of reach right now, maybe it’s time to plan for a holiday at home? Creating a tropical feel on your suburban patio isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound.
A seed sown – setting out on a horticultural journey.
Gertrude Jekyll, the influential garden designer, plants woman and artist, once said that ‘The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.’ For myself, like many gardeners, this is profoundly true. Over the years, that love has almost become an obsession...
Peonies – 6 Fun Facts & 5 Essential Growing Tips
Peonies are a famed ornamental flowering plant in the genus Paeonia. Their stunning, voluminous blooms are on show for a short season each year running from late spring through to early summer. They’ve long been a favourite of many a gardener and the best floristry...
Weaving the Garden Tapestry
There can be much more to a beautiful garden than masses of flowers. Although a ‘sea of colour’ border is spectacular it may be fleeting in beauty, and can lack definition through the seasons if it has no underlying form or structure. Putting together the shape and...
Drought-proofing my garden
The recent dry spell has really made me think about the plants I am growing. The drought has taken its toll on a favourite tree in my garden. In truth, it has been many years since it performed at its best. This year, I’ll be lucky if there are any leaves left come...
DIY Dahlia Festival
It always intrigues me how different plants come in and out of fashion. Dahlias are one such plant that has ridden the roller coaster of popularity over the last century – but right now, they are definitely on the up! I for one, am glad of their revival. So are the...
Heavenly Hydrangeas!
If there’s one genus that I am utterly in love with then it’s Hydrangeas! Every year as we head into ‘Hydrangea season’ I begin muttering eulogies to these beauties… ‘What a stunner!’ ‘Isn’t it gorgeous?’ ‘Wow, look at the flowers on that!!!’ I don’t really know when...