Planting and potting

Dahlias are fabulous summer plants for growing in flower beds, borders, containers and for producing cut flowers.

Lavender is a fabulous evergreen shrub and every garden should have some. It’s wonderfully colourful, with its silvery...

Hanging baskets are great for small spaces and a brilliant way to add colour to otherwise drab walls and fences.

Hibiscus are very showy plants, producing large trumpet-like flowers in a wide range of colours, depending on the...

With their tropical flowers blooming in a wide range of colours, shapes, and patterns, it’s little wonder that orchids...

Yuccas are grown for their ornamental evergreen, sword-shaped leaves and large panicles of white or creamy-white flowers...

To ensure that your Wisteria is a bounteous bloomer you will need to master the art of regular pruning.

If you have poor soil, it is reasonably easy to improve it, so that nearly all plants will thrive.

When summer bedding plants come to an end, the garden can start to lose its colour and need brightening up.

Lobelias are probably best known for the annual summer bedding plant.

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’.