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
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How to grow, look after care for Lily (Lilium)
There are numerous plants that have lily in their name - lily of the valley, plantain lily, arum lily, canna lily - to...
Aquatic plants
Aquatic plants are plants that like to grow in water or boggy ground and can be purchased from specialist nurseries.
Sowing seed outdoors
Hardy annual flower seeds and seeds of many vegetables and salad crops can be sown directly outdoors in garden soil...
How and when to prune hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are an asset to any garden. Flowering in late summer, they brighten up our borders just as other plants are...
Growing hydrangeas
Hydrangeas have a romantic elegance reminiscent of times gone by, and with their large, long- flowering blooms and...
Straight answers to plant feeding
When it comes to feeding your plants, there are several ways of doing it. There are multi-purpose general feeds that can...
How and when to take plant cuttings
Taking cuttings from a plant is easy to do once you know how. It costs very little and you don’t need complicated...
European national flowers
Many non-native plants can happily survive in other regions of the world, which has given gardeners more choice than...
Pansy and violets (Viola)
There are numerous species and varieties of Viola that are fabulous garden plants. These range from the small-flowers of...
How to grow and care for snowdrops (Galanthus)
Snowdrops are tough, reliable plants, generally flowering in the height of winter, often poking their heads above...