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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Cacti are among some of our most popular – and fascinating – houseplants. Many first-time gardeners – especially...

Some people love weeding by hand, digging out their garden weeds. But is it such a great idea?

You may have never considered growing melons before – thinking they’re too ‘tropical’ for the UK climate. Although they...

Marrows and squashes are versatile vegetables - they can be roasted, steamed or stuffed - and provide a flavourful...

Here is our guide on how to grow your own broad beans.

Spider plants are incredibly popular houseplants, grown mainly for their variegated evergreen foliage. This is mainly...

Thyme has many uses in cooking and elsewhere in the kitchen.

Rosemary is an ornamental evergreen shrub with attractive, aromatic, deep green leaves and blue flowers in spring and...

Although many plants we grow in our gardens are tough as old boots, frost, cold weather and cold winds can be fatal to...

Treehouses have long been the ultimate charming hideout spot for children. While some toys may have sat unused a mere...

When watching the karate kid films in the 80’s, we think you would agree that one of the key things to take away from...

Growing from seed is one of the most rewarding and cheapest ways to grow plants.