Advice & Inspiration

Advice & inspiration

After a long summer of getting the best out of your lawn, it is time to start preparing it for winter.

As the weather starts to cool down at the end of the summer, how can you still make the most of your garden in autumn?

If your patio looks a little drab and uninteresting after a colourful summer, then plant up your containers with late...

The ban stopping the sale of bagged peat for the home gardener will mean that everyone will have to be gardening peat...

With the arrival of autumn comes a task that’s the bane of the season for many gardeners.

After a long summer of getting the best out of your lawn, it is time to start preparing it for winter.

With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, this provides a huge amount of space and opportunity to help wildlife...

If your patio looks a little drab and uninteresting after a colourful summer, then plant up your containers with late...

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In Brief Identify pest and disease problems on plant stems. Click on the links where appropriate to find out even more...

Broad beans are a delicious vegetable that’s easy to grow and well worth the space in the garden. The flowers are highly...

Bursting with vitamin C, currants are an easily grown soft fruit.

We’ve compiled a list of some of the world's deadliest plants, to help you to take a little more care when you're next...

Seeds of non-hardy or half-hardy plants have to be sown indoors in pots or seed trays filled with good compost.

Sometimes, plant leaves change colour during the growing seasons – spring and summer. There are numerous reasons for...

The larvae of the cabbage root fly eat the roots of brassicas causes them to wilt and, in the case of small plants...

Sage is a very popular shrub, mainly grown for its leaves, which are strongly scented.

No garden should be without the brightly coloured spring flowers of tulips. They come in a wide range of colours – both...

Don’t head indoors until you've run through our checklist of essential autumn garden jobs.

As Autumn takes hold and the weather changes, an almost magical eruption starts to occur in the wild and in our gardens...

Plants can wilt for a number of different reasons. These range from simply drying out to be attacked by a fungal disease...