The 20 Best Plants for Seedheads – Beauty, Wildlife and Less Work in the Garden
The best plants for seedheads: find out how to create winter beauty while helping wildlife and minimising your work in the garden!
Tips, ideas and inspiration – how to achieve your best-ever borders. Brilliant plants and different border styles from naturalistic to classic herbaceous. Dig in!
The best plants for seedheads: find out how to create winter beauty while helping wildlife and minimising your work in the garden!
Discover autumn perennials for sun, shade and dry borders. Tips from Asa Gregors-Warg, Beth Chatto’s Head Gardener— plus easy autumn planting steps.
Jamie Butterworth, author of What Grows Together, shares easy planting tips for beginners and ‘time poor’ gardeners.
12 top scented plants to trigger memories, evoke feelings of calm or happiness and attract wildlife. Add fragrance to your garden now.
Update your borders with 5 lessons from the re-vamped Piet Oudolf borders at RHS Wisley – pack your garden with colour and texture.
Seven beautiful ornamental grasses for your garden from Paul Seaborne of Pelham Plants – they’re super-easy to care for and will add light and movement to your border.
18 long flowering plants to turn your garden into a ‘bowl of colour’ from mid-summer to the first frosts. See them in Hole Park Gardens.
7 brilliant border plants, chosen by plant growing experts of the Plant Fairs Roadshow. Plus spring planting tips and what NOT to plant!
How to turn difficult areas of bare earth into a tapestry of colour and texture with easy-grow ground cover plants. Expert Tim Ingram’s tips.
Garden border maintenance in both autumn and spring is mainly about the plants. Summer and early autumn is for dead-heading. Weeding goes on all year round if you have a…
I’ve been researching tips for creating a garden border on a budget. But to create an effective budget-beating strategy – and a beautiful flower border – you need to know…
We all want beautiful but tough perennials in our gardens this year. Temperate climates (those with spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons) are notoriously changeable. At Antique Perennials, Kinglake, Australia’s…
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Contemporary cottage garden style – the power of the 70/30 rule
How to achieve the prettiest contemporary cottage garden style – and why the 70/30 rule will make your planting so much more successful.
How to turn a wide shallow backyard into the perfect garden
How to divide up a wide shallow backyard or garden – turn it into a beautiful outdoor space with just a few clever tips.
The really easy guide to pruning hydrangeas
Confused by contradictory advice on how and when to prune hydrangeas? This post makes it easy to achieve beautiful blooms year after year.
Don’t dig up dahlias for winter! What to do instead….
I don’t dig up dahlias to store them over winter. And before you dig your dahlias up, it’s important to know the pros and cons. Do I have to dig…
The absolutely best way to prune English lavender beautifully
Find out how to prune English lavender to make it look better and last longer. Photos of my lavender from 2013-2023 are proof that it works!
How to plant a border like a pro
How to plant a border brilliantly – design tips and practical advice. How to position shrubs and flowers in the best places, plus other tips.
