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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Mulching your garden helps trap valuable moisture in your soil improving the availability and uptake of nutrients, as...

Many gardeners get concerned when they see lichens growing on the branches of their trees and shrubs, thinking they are...

Delicious in pies, soups and stews, and full of vitamins and minerals, pumpkins are a tasty autumn and winter treat.

Limes are varieties of Citrus, closely related to oranges and lemons.

Clematis – sometimes known as the queen of the climbers – are very versatile climbing plants.

Make your houseplants feel at home with the right environment.

In hot, dry summers supplementary watering is needed.

You can easily propagate herbaceous perennials by dividing them.

Blackberries are easy to grow and produce lots of luscious, tasty and juicy fruit with very little work and care.

Unlike annual weeds, perennial weeds are big and invasive, rooting themselves firmly into your garden landscape.

Leek rust is a fungal disease that attacks leeks, but it also affects garlic, chives, onions and other species of Allium...

Almost any vegetable you can buy seed for can be grown in the garden or on the patio. Just follow the instructions for...