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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Leaf hoppers are sap-sucking insects that attack a wide range of plants.

Corylus avellana is native to this country and much of Europe. It’s a deciduous tree reaching approximately 12 metres...

As its name suggests, Christmas cacti are fabulous houseplants for brightening up the home in winter.

Aside from watering, there are a number of things you need to think about when caring for your houseplants.

Gro-Bags, gro-sacs and planters can be used to grow a magnitude of vegetables, fruits, salad leaves and herbs.

Nothing’s more exasperating than finding the veg or plants you’ve tenderly nurtured all season have been munched by a...

What better way to add a personal touch to a home-cooked meal than with your own homegrown herbs?

Rhododendrons and azaleas produce spectacular spring displays of colourful flowers. Rhododendrons and evergreen azaleas...

Woodlice are harmless, but large number may appear in your house gaining entry though cracks, doors and windows. They...

Did you know that we need to feed our plants, especially if we are growing in pots and containers.

Just imagine the scene: You want a gin and tonic or need some lemon juice for a recipe and you’ve run out of lemons...

One of the best ways to avoid vegetable pests, diseases and disorders is to rotate your crops to different plots each...