10 top autumn garden tips and plants
Six leading plant growers share their top autumn garden tips and recommend the best plants for flowering now
Tips and techniques from experts. No-fuss and easy but effective.
Six leading plant growers share their top autumn garden tips and recommend the best plants for flowering now
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…
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 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 all the leaves from your box plant or hedge. And they can do two or three life cycles…
The 5 most useful garden tools – you don’t need to buy and store lots of tools. How to choose the ones that you’ll use the most!
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…
Planting slug resistant plants is the most effective way of stopping slugs and snails from devouring your garden. You may have read articles or seen advertisements promising that you can…
How to clean and maintain garden tools two ways – using either specialist garden tool cleaning kit or common household products.
Grow chrysanthemums to keep your garden looking gorgeous for longer. They’re easy care and available in lots of colours and styles.
Autumn and spring are the best time to plant perennials. So that’s also the best time to fill gaps in your border, move plants – or even revamp your border…
Tips on growing salvias from the UK’s top expert, William Dyson. Where to plant, how to prune and what plants to grow with them.
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