Complete guide to lawn feeding
Like all plants, lawns benefit from regular feeding. Without extra nutrients, the grass soon uses up plant food reserves in the soil and then turns pale and thin.
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How to look after your lawn: 7 top lawn care tips
Lush, green, cool and like a carpet underfoot in summer, a healthy lawn makes a garden even more beautiful. If you’re...
Peat free compost
The horticultural scientists at Miracle-Gro have led the way in researching, developing, and investing in alternative...
What to do in your garden in May
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When to prune and cut back clematis
Whatever variety of clematis you choose, pruning is a key part of successful growth and bountiful blooming.
Poppy (Papaver)
Blousy blooms with colourful, almost paper-like, petals are the hallmarks of many true poppies – particularly the...
Aloe vera plant guide
Aloe vera is a tender succulent, which is mainly grown as a houseplant. It has attractive, variegated leaves and...
Gerbera, transvaal daisy (Gerbera)
Gerberas produce lots of brightly coloured flowers over several months. Most types are varieties of Gerbera jamesonii...
How to grow and care for bamboo at home
Bamboos are wonderful garden plants, grown primarily for their architectural stems, or canes, and their foliage. These...
A guide to using pots, tubs and window boxes
Pots, tubs and containers of all sorts are the mainstays of every patio display. They come in many sizes and shapes...
A guide to feeding border plants
Plants need to be able to draw on reserves of all the vital elements to have healthy leaves and produce quality flowers...
Winter flowering plants and shrubs
Even in the middle of winter there are still a few brave plants in flower, brightening up cold dark days with colour and...
Wisteria flowers
Wisterias are gorgeous climbing plants, perfect for covering walls and fences or grown over pergolas and arches where...
Watering camellias, blueberries and other acid loving plants
When it comes to watering rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and other lime-hating, acid-loving, ericaceous plants, they...
Micropropagation versus traditional plant propagation
So What Is Micropropagation? Put as simply as possible, micropropagation is where you take tissue from a plant to...