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?

We explain how you can repair your lawn patches quickly and easily.

If your patio looks a little drab and uninteresting after a colourful summer, then plant up your containers with late...

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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Creating hedgehog friendly gardens is easier than you might think.

Attracting birds to your garden has become more and more important since the decline of their natural habitats.

Delphiniums are elegant, stately plants that are stalwarts of cottage gardens. Most are perennial, but annual varieties...

Cacti are among some of our most popular – and fascinating – houseplants. Many first-time gardeners – especially...

Some people love weeding by hand, digging out their garden weeds. But is it such a great idea?

You may have never considered growing melons before – thinking they’re too ‘tropical’ for the UK climate. Although they...

Marrows and squashes are versatile vegetables - they can be roasted, steamed or stuffed - and provide a flavourful...

Here is our guide on how to grow your own broad beans.

Spider plants are incredibly popular houseplants, grown mainly for their variegated evergreen foliage. This is mainly...

Thyme has many uses in cooking and elsewhere in the kitchen.

Rosemary is an ornamental evergreen shrub with attractive, aromatic, deep green leaves and blue flowers in spring and...

Although many plants we grow in our gardens are tough as old boots, frost, cold weather and cold winds can be fatal to...