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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Find out what a weed really is and why we call it a weed.

With so many different weedkillers (herbicides) available, it can get confusing as to which type is best suited for use...

Ever wanted to get more from your plants without having to buy more? With our guide to what propagation is, and how to...

Transform the dullest of driveways into a sensational but low maintenance showstopper

Flowers are one of the most symbolic objects in modern and ancient times. Throughout the course of history, trees...

Dig a hole and just put in the plant roots? To ensure plants establish quickly, grow properly and live a long time, you...

Pinus sylvestris. It’s one of the 3 native UK conifers that spread through the UK following the retreating last Ice Age...

Summer bedding plants and summer-flowering bulbs brighten up our gardens. Learn how to care for your plants to keep them...

As summer approaches most of us can’t wait to get outside in the garden but could yours do with a revamp? Are you...

Some plants, particularly lime-hating, ericaceous plants are more susceptible to shortages of iron.

Christmas houseplants are a great way of brightening up the house and they’re fabulous Christmas gifts.

Bacterial canker is a disease that affects members of the Prunus family – including cherries and plums.