Planting in beds and borders
Dig a hole and just put in the plant roots? To ensure plants establish quickly, grow properly and live a long time, you need to take a little more time and effort than that when planting up your beds...
Planting and potting
Planting and potting
From hydrangeas to wisteria, the plants in your garden require the right attention. Understanding the needs of plants and knowing how and when to plant and pot is key to a healthy garden and we’ve got plenty of advice.
Advice & inspiration
Growing hydrangeas
Hydrangeas have a romantic elegance reminiscent of times gone by, and with their large, long- flowering blooms and...
Garden planters and potting plants
There’s one group of satisfying jobs that we love doing in Spring and Summer – and that’s potting up seedlings and...
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Poppy (Papaver)
Blousy blooms with colourful, almost paper-like, petals are the hallmarks of many true poppies – particularly the...
Aloe vera plant guide
Aloe vera is a tender succulent, which is mainly grown as a houseplant. It has attractive, variegated leaves and...
Gerbera, transvaal daisy (Gerbera)
Gerberas produce lots of brightly coloured flowers over several months. Most types are varieties of Gerbera jamesonii...
Bamboos (various species)
Bamboos are wonderful garden plants, grown primarily for their architectural stems, or canes, and their foliage. These...
A guide to using pots, tubs and window boxes
Pots, tubs and containers of all sorts are the mainstays of every patio display. They come in many sizes and shapes...
Winter flowering plants and shrubs
Even in the middle of winter there are still a few brave plants in flower, brightening up cold dark days with colour and...
Wisteria flowers
Wisterias are gorgeous climbing plants, perfect for covering walls and fences or grown over pergolas and arches where...
Watering camellias, blueberries and other acid loving plants
When it comes to watering rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and other lime-hating, acid-loving, ericaceous plants, they...
Micropropagation versus traditional plant propagation
So What Is Micropropagation? Put as simply as possible, micropropagation is where you take tissue from a plant to...
Prickly pear cactus care (Opuntia)
Prickly pears and other Opuntia species are very popular desert cacti grown as houseplants. They are highly ornamental...
Planting bulbs, corms and tubers
Every garden needs a few bulbs. They’re among the easiest plants to grow, and some of the most beautiful.