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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Winter box (or sweet box) is a delightful evergreen, winter-flowering shrub – despite its difficult to pronounce...

Crassula ovata is the botanical name of the plant commonly referred to as the ‘money plant’.

To get the best out of your lawn and to get it to thrive rather than just survive getting the right seed mix for your...

Jasmines are very popular deciduous, semi-evergreen or evergreen climbing plants. Most are summer flowering, producing...

What should you grow in a raised bed?

Ginger is a powerful tropical vegetable that has a wealth of benefits and is surprising easy to home-grow.

Chrysanthemums are a big group of plants – with varieties producing flowers in all colours of the rainbow, from a few...

One of life’s great pleasures has to be sitting outside in your garden, be it reading a book, having a chat or just...

Crunchy gravel drives and paths may sound good, but weeds can be a year-round problem.

A fantastic lawn isn’t as difficult as you think and doesn’t need to be costly either.

Hawthorns are very attractive, deciduous ornamental trees, many of which are suitable for even average-sized gardens...

There are many weird, wonderful and wacky vegetables out there. So if you’re not too enticed by the standard selection...