Why garden podcasts are the hot new trend…
How to find the garden podcast for your plant passion – with top podcasters The SodShow and On The Ledge, plus the hot new The Plant Based Podcast.
How to find the garden podcast for your plant passion – with top podcasters The SodShow and On The Ledge, plus the hot new The Plant Based Podcast.
Garden photography and video is now important to almost any garden lover. If you’re on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, or you have a blog or a garden-related business, then the…
Do you vlog, podcast or blog for money? And if so, are you doing it legally? Or are you risking your blog being removed from Google listings? Perhaps you get…
What are your best blogging tips of the year? I’ll tell you mine, if you tell me yours. Britmums is a blogging collective. Although it’s mainly for parenting bloggers, it…
How do you know when someone is stealing your blog? And what can you do about it? I’ve just had this experience (not for the first time). So have several…
I’ve had so many questions about why Facebook is important in the past few months. Even those who hate social media are tentatively asking me whether I would explain a…
What does a garden blogger do? Or, indeed, what does any blogger do? And, most importantly, does blogging make money? If so, how? The world wakes up in February, after…
Garden videos don’t feature in the playlists of the UK’s biggest YouTube stars. Although it can only be a matter of time before Zoella gets to ‘that gardening age’… But…
It’s snowdrop time. But snowdrops are the most frustratingly difficult flowers to photograph. From this weekend onwards, there will be ‘snowdrop walks’ all round Britain. The NGS has a list of…
If you blog, tweet or Facebook about your garden, you need wonderful images. If you run a business in the gardening world (or any other world), you need great photos…
I’d just enjoyed a lovely day at The Chelsea Flower Show with a dear friend. And the Middlesized Garden had also been accredited for Press Day. This, along with my no…
Have you considered finding garden ideas on Pinterest – or using it for promoting your garden blog or business? It’s great for planning and research – you can use it…
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How to increase your garden privacy
3 top garden privacy tips – how to make your garden look and feel more private!
The best plants for amazingly low maintenance garden pots
What are ‘low maintenance garden pots’? After all, how low can you go? Can you go away on holiday for a fortnight without asking anyone to water your pots? Er,…
8 steps to the long thin garden of your dreams
Two years ago Emma and Mel moved to a house in Whitstable with a long thin garden. It’s open during Whitstable Open Gardens every year for the NGS. They came…
Fences for privacy – 9 great ideas for garden screening
Are you making the most of your fences for privacy and screening? Privacy is a big issue for middle-sized gardens, because high hedges and fences block light. But low hedges…
7 essential garden tools to make your gardening life really easy
Invest in good quality versions of the 7 essential garden tools. Then build up more useful tools gradually as you find you need them. The 7 essential garden tools a…
The 8 best perfect-for-privacy garden trees
Do you need trees for privacy? Privacy garden trees can make a big difference to how much you enjoy your garden. Perhaps you have a neighbour’s window over-looking your garden?…
