Best plant to enhance your outdoor living space
Your outdoor space is your special place which can serve a number of functions, a quiet place to escape the stresses of everyday life for a few hours, a spot where you can grow some vegetables or a party space where you can have the BBQ and cook for family and friends.
Best garden plants for beginners
If you are new to gardening and need a little help as to what plants to start off with this blog comes up with some specimens, easy to grow and maintain, for your new outdoor space.
How To Clean Synthetic Rattan Garden Furniture
This blog explains how to keep your rattan weave garden furniture looking in tip tip condition for as long as possible. Good quality rattan furniture needs practically no maintenance just a little attention in spring, even less if it has been covered all winter.
How To Plant Up A Damp, Shady Area Of The Garden
Follow our planting guide for colour along damp, shady river banks One of the trickiest areas of a garden to plant up is a permanently damp, shady position; but there...
How To Plant Bare Root Soft Fruit, Trees And Hedging
Plant bare root soft fruit, hedging and trees in winter and early spring Bare root trees, soft fruit and hedging are supplied without soil; they usually come wrapped in sacking....
How To Have Healthy Productive Soil
Healthy soil is the key to more nutritious produce and a larger yield In order to produce healthy, nutritious fruit and vegetables or forage for your animals, the soil needs...
What Is Meant By Planting Bulbs ‘In The Green’?
Plant snowdrops, English bluebells and aconites just after flowering Some bulbs, when planted dry, do not have a very good success rate. Planting them just after they have finished flowering,...
How To Bring The Delights Of Spring Into Your Garden
Most of us love the arrival of spring and the promise of better weather just around the corner. This blog will give you ideas on how to transform your garden into a springtime wonderland.
How To Get Your Greenhouse Ready For Spring
Get the gardening year off to a great start by cleaning the greenhouse Now that the Christmas and New Year festivities are over the perfect way to burn off those...
How to make wild bird food
Budget friendly wild bird food project to make with kids Once the hedgerows have been depleted of berries in late winter and spring wild birds can struggle to find enough...
How to have a low maintenance garden
Cut down on the work and enjoy life Not everyone can have a show garden, which, let’s face it, is very time consuming and does require a certain degree of...
How To Attract Wildlife To The Garden
Wildlife is under threat like never before and this blog gives you some tips on the little things you can do in your outdoor space which can make a huge difference to a whole range of mammals, birds and invertebrates.
Best Plants For Hedges
Hedges are extremely beneficial for wildlife and can act as a windbreak in your garden so if you are considering uprooting that old fence and planting a hedge this blog will give you some tips on how to do this.
How To Grow Sensational Superberries
Maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) You can't live forever but eating 'superberries' can make you healthier Who wants to live forever? Probably not an option at the moment, but you can significantly...