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Top tips to attract wildlife to your garden
The best way to attract more wildlife to your garden is to provide a habitat complete with food and forage sources, shelter for a wide variety of creatures, and an accessible water source. We asked some of our favourite wildlife gardeners and bloggers for tips on how...
Introducing a Low Calorie/ Low Carb/ High Fibre Alternative to Potato
We are launching two intriguing new winter squash varieties. Intriguing because when cooked, they taste just like mashed and baked potatoes whilst offering fewer calories, along with lower carbohydrate and higher fibre content. With today’s trends towards healthy...
What grew in the garden
This spring, we asked five of our favourite garden bloggers if they were planning anything new and exciting over the summer. Their responses varied from experiments with onions to enticing a hedgehog into their garden, and more. Now it’s autumn, we’re intrigued to see...
Win our ‘Urban Jungle’ house plant collection!
This competition has now closed, but thank you to all those who have entered. Please keep an eye on our competition pages for future giveaways.
Gardening with grasses
Do your borders lack colour, height and movement throughout the year? Professional garden designer Nic Wilson of dogwooddays recently redesigned the beds in her own back garden to striking effect. Her secret weapon? Grasses. By integrating their elegant structure and...
It’s a jungle out there: cats and wildlife
We all love creatures great and small, right? I'd far rather employ birds and bees to reduce pests than use chemicals, and so we go to great lengths to entice them into our garden. But there's the small matter of our six cats to consider. Our solution? The 'Catio'. By...
Small border planting ideas with high impact
The average length of a UK garden is just 15 metres long, but limited space doesn’t prevent you from having gorgeous borders filled with show-stopping plants and shrubs. We asked Lee Burkhill, the professional designer behind Garden Ninja, for his advice on giving...
Tough plants for tough places
Many people have a tough spot in their garden - too dry, too shady, or just too exposed to be able to easily grow plants that will thrive. Others have damp, boggy areas or frost pockets that present challenges to plant life. We asked The Sunday Gardener, Carol...