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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Aquatic plants are plants that like to grow in water or boggy ground and can be purchased from specialist nurseries.

This time of year inspires most to decorate their house for the Christmas season. But most will not think to use what it...

Perennial or woody weeds produce large, deep or creeping roots that keep coming back year after year.

Hardy annual flower seeds and seeds of many vegetables and salad crops can be sown directly outdoors in garden soil...

Many of us would love to be able to enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of nature at home but do not think we have the...

When did you last see a red squirrel and where were you? Or perhaps you’ve never seen one? There are only about 140,000...

Hydrangeas are an asset to any garden. Flowering in late summer, they brighten up our borders just as other plants are...

Hydrangeas have a romantic elegance reminiscent of times gone by, and with their large, long- flowering blooms and...

What is square foot gardening? Square Foot Gardening (SFG), as the name suggests, involves building raised beds...

When it comes to feeding your plants, there are several ways of doing it. There are multi-purpose general feeds that can...

Feeding birds isn't just about scattering a few crumbs on the ground and hoping for the best. To attract different types...

Smut diseases aren't common in gardens, but one that is often seen is sweetcorn smut. Description A fungus that is...