Garden ruins and follies add more to your garden than you think!
Garden ruins and follies are ornamental – but they can also be focal points, divide up space, create a micro-climate for plants and more
The basic idea of No Mow May is simple. Just don’t mow your lawn in May, which allows some wildflowers and weeds to bloom. This – along with longer grasses…
Garden ruins and follies are ornamental – but they can also be focal points, divide up space, create a micro-climate for plants and more
How to create a rustic cottage garden haven in an empty strip of lawn or field, with budget tips and recycling cottagecore inspiration
Are you looking at plants in your garden and wondering why they aren’t flowering? I am. And I’ve discovered a surprising reason why my cosmos plants don’t even have any…
How to divide up a wide shallow backyard or garden – turn it into a beautiful outdoor space with just a few clever tips.
RHS Hampton Court 2023 is short for The RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. But that sounds far too grand. ‘Hampton Court’ is the Chelsea Flower Show’s much loved younger…
If you’re going to puppy-proof your garden, there’s lots of advice out there. Not all of it works. As a journalist, I start every project with the assumption that I…
Here’s the pick of the best ideas for your garden from BBC Gardeners World Live 2023. Of course, we can never reproduce show garden perfection in our own gardens, but…
You can make a container pond out of anything that will hold water. But some materials are better than others. That includes stone, metal, some ceramics and fibreglass. Many people…
A stumpery is an area of the garden with tree stumps and logs arranged as decoration. If you’ve got a mature tree with big roots and you can’t plant anything…
Here are the best ideas for your garden from this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (known as RHS Chelsea 2023). Not all show garden ideas translate into real garden design,…
Here are 5 top insider tips on how to choose the best plants for your garden. I visited multi-award winning nursery, Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants to ask Rosy Hardy what…
Box moth caterpillars – also known as box tree moth caterpillars- can strip the leaves from your box plant or hedge. In extreme cases, your plant will die. As many…