Tag Archives: Tips
Learning to live with slugs and snails
Learning to live with slugs and snails
Generally thought of as among the gardener’s worst enemies, almost up there with vi...
Six long-flowering perennials
Six long-flowering perennials
It’s that intoxicating time of year when primroses, violets, wood anemones and celandines decorate hed...
Poinsettias: Their Story and 5 Care Tips for Success.
Poinsettias: Their Story and 5 Care Tips for Success.
In this blog we are going to take a close look at a spectacular...
15 Easy To Grow Flower, Vegetable And Herb Seeds For August.
Firstly, we hope that your gardens didn’t get too battered by the torrential rain we all experienced last month. Now, with ca...
Cottage Garden Design Tips and Key Plants
What is a cottage garden?
The cottage garden is the quintessential English garden. A cottage garden has a
simple design and is genero...
A GARDENER’S ODYSSEY
As gardeners we have the good fortune of being able to escape lockdown restrictions by working and relaxing in our own hortic...
TRANSFORMING YOUR GARDEN WITH GORGEOUS EVERGREENS
Transforming your garden with evergreens.
So this might be posted in soggy November, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look at some clever...
SPRING AWAKENING: BULBS IN CONTAINERS
If your image of potted bulbs is a bowl of splaying hyacinths plonked in the middle Auntie Joan’s sideboard then it is time you took a ...
NATURALISTIC PRAIRIE PLANTING COMBINATIONS
When we think about prairie planting schemes we tend to look at the leaders in this area of design for inspiration and ideas. Des...
GET YOUR BARBECUE GRILLING READY
It’s getting to that time of year where we can finally enjoy the long summer evenings, friends and family get together’s’ and of course...
TOP TIPS ON DECORATING YOUR TREE
Whether you have already picked your pine or you are debating which spruce to seek out …it is almost time to tart up your tree! (if you...
The Ultimate Bulb Planting Guide (and How to Deter Those Pesky Squirrels)
Pre-planting tip
Buy bulbs from reputable garden centres (ahem) this October for the best choice and remember to plant October for daf...
