Caring for Plants, Trees and Shrubs

Advice & inspiration

A fast growing hedge will increase privacy, while also adding texture and interest to your landscaping.

No matter what the size or design of your home, there are houseplants that will suit your home and lifestyle.

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

When you grow plants indoors or in a heated greenhouse; before they go outside in their permanent positions they need to...

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

For a lawn, summer can be the most stressful time of the year. So what can you do to keep your summer lawn looking its...

Keeping blooms bursting with life and staying on top of cropping means there’s plenty to keep you busy in the summer.

When going to a garden centre of DIY store, it’s very easy to become confused by all the different types of compost out...

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A guide to why shop-bought compost can be wet, and what to do about it.

The ban stopping the sale of bagged peat for the home gardener will mean that everyone will have to be gardening peat...

All the insider knowledge and tips on how to make the best of your peat free compost.

With so much in the media written about going peat free with your compost it's extremely easy to get confused about what...

The horticultural scientists at Miracle-Gro have led the way in researching, developing, and investing in alternative...

One of the most important gardening tasks you can do from November through to early March is to prune.

Introducing houseplants to your décor is a great way of adding a touch of nature.

How to plant and grow and care for bare-root plants in your garden.

While some plants are bone hardy and will survive perfectly fine outside in the garden in a typical winter, some aren’t...

Get into the spirit of Halloween with frightful flowering and creepy carnivorous plants.

Did you know that the more you tend to your green spaces in autumn, the more it’ll pay off in spring?

Mulching not only improves the quality of the soil, but also has many other benefits too.