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...

Why not add a personal touch to your Christmas gifts this year by making your own!

Nothing says 'Christmas is on its way' like the smell of a real tree - let alone the joy of picking one and decorating...

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

There’s nothing quite like a real Christmas tree to decorate a room and fill your home with that nostalgic seasonal...

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The garden is simultaneously a private and social spot that can burst aesthetically with colour and shape.

Red Thread Grass is the most common disease lawns can suffer from.

There are some plants that are more than happy to live their lives in the shadows.

Hardy annuals are the perfect way of creating colourful summer borders quickly and easily. You simply sow the seeds...

Pruning apple trees doesn’t need to be complicated.

Did you know that some of these colourful and attractive beauties can actually be harmful to you or your pets health?

Oedemas look like a wart disease has attacked the leaves. But it isn't a disease at all…

We’ve all seen them, haven’t we? Those gardens where the owner has done amazing, clever, creative or just fun things...

The process for growing peppers is very similar to how you would grow chilli peppers (obviously) and more surprisingly...

A few simple herbs can elevate your cooking, and there’s nothing quite as good as using herbs you’ve grown yourself.

Sorbus aucuparia also known as Mountain Ash as it grows at fairly high altitudes and the leaves look similar to those of...

In Brief Identify pest and disease problems on plant stems. Click on the links where appropriate to find out even more...