Choosing Plants for the Garden
3 simple steps to remember when choosing what plants to put in your garden
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Garden Trends for 2019… think Us not Them!
OK, we love to bang our drum so to speak, but what we have been saying and advocated about gardening for years, everyone else is now agreeing with. Which is great because we all do our bit to help our planet more! So, what are the garden trends for 2019…. Think We not Me! Most importantly and at last, is
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How to Design a Garden – from Scratch
How to Design a Garden from Scratch How do you start to think about what to ‘do’ with your garden? Where to start and what needs doing? Because we always aim to make gardening easier, we have created a series on how to design your garden – this is the first in that series. Watch the video to find out
Read moreMaximising space in a small garden
Maximising space in a small garden is all about minimising ‘dead space’ Garden sizes have been shrinking for decades – which is a crying shame. As land for development becomes ever more expensive, more houses are squeezed into the same sized area with the casualty being the garden. Although your garden is getting smaller, the stuff we need to use
Read moreHow to buy plants properly – 5 golden rules
How do you buy plants properly? Well, the best way to explain how is with a sofa. So you’ve just watched the Chelsea Flower Show all week and now you’re on a mission to do-up the garden. Gardening can be really expensive, buying plants certainly is – so how can you buy plants properly, so you don’t waste
Read moreDoes your Garden Taste Good?
Does your Garden Taste Good? And why this matters. Sitting in a garden in Summer watching bees buzz and butterflies flutter is one of life’s great pleasures. Not only is it a pleasure for us to watch (unless you are melissophobic or lepidopterophobic of course!), it is also hugely beneficial to all those insects too! Bees have to work really hard
Read moreRight Plant….Wrong Place!
Are you a Right Plant…Wrong Place expert! We’ve all done it….we’ve planted a lovely plant in what we thought was the perfect spot; then it all started going wrong! Delicate climbers turn into voracious triffids; the few bulbs you popped in the corner have re-appeared – everywhere; or that beautiful gorgeous flowered plant you planted in the corner is now
Read moreMake your garden look like a Chelsea Show Garden
Chelsea Show Garden Want one of these? But have one of these…. In my previous post on Chelsea show gardens, we looked at why it will be nigh on impossible to recreate a show garden at home but that we could take on board bits of the gardens to create a bit more glamour at home.
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