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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Tarragon isn’t a widely grown herb at home, but it is well worth it especially if you like French cuisine.

Birds: singing in the still of the afternoon, glimpsing a cherry red breast as a Robin scoots across the garden, the...

To ensure a perfect lawn, you should be using a lawn spreader for feeding to get even coverage. Our guide to lawn...

There are two types of fennel, herb and Florence, both of which are extremely popular – as well as highly ornamental –...

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

There are hundreds of reasons to spend time outside in the garden – come sunshine or frost there’s always a fix that can...

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

In the UK, there are around 27 million people who partake in gardening. This is a huge portion of the 64 million that...

Whilst some of us like to see squirrels bounding around the parks, most of us are not so happy to see them in our own...

The garden is a weird and wonderful place at times, and this list of things you can find in your garden shows just how...

What happens if for some reason you find yourself with a pile of wooden pallets? Perhaps you’ve had a delivery and they...

The ultimate goal of growing a Bonsai is to create a miniaturized but realistic representation of nature in the form of...