Plews Potting Shed Blog
Plews Potting Shed is where you’ll find our weekly gardening blogs. Enjoy garden design inspiration, garden visits plant facts, ‘how to’ guides, garden history, and other gardening related topics.
Marie Shallcross has written all bar a handful of the Plews Potting Shed blogs, a weekly gardening article since 2011. In case you’re wondering, they do get filtered out if no longer as relevant as they were. A few have stood the test of time as ‘classics’, with just an odd tweak to ensure critical information is up to date.
Marie is a Member of the prestigious Garden Media Guild and a Finalist in the Gardening Blog of the Year 2021 for the Garden Media Guild Awards
Plews Potting Shed is in the Top 10 Garden Design Blogs on Feedspot and in the Top 30 Gardening Blogs.
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Romantic Roses for Valentine’s Day and Beyond
This blog on romantic roses is less about madly spending...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for February
Never mind about gardening tasks for February! Think about Snowdrops, Daffodils...
Read More12 Gardening Tips for your New Year Garden
Did you perhaps make New Year’s Resolutions and now we’re...
Read MoreChimonanthus praecox – Wintersweet
Chimonanthus praecox is a shrub that you hardly notice during...
Read MoreBare Root Fruit Bushes
Gooseberry crumble, blueberries sprinkled over your breakfast granola – bare...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for January
As we begin a new gardening year, many of us are...
Read More12 Plants for the 12 Days of Christmas
12 Plants for the 12 Days of Christmas is a...
Read MoreThe Winter Solstice and Your Garden
Whilst I’m talking here about the Winter Solstice and your...
Read MoreHippeastrum or Amaryllis? Christmas Flowering Bulbs
Botanical Latin scholars among you may be aware why the...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for December
Some gardeners have been picking Chrysanthemums and Dahlias for the...
Read MoreChristmas Wreaths History
Christmas wreaths history, well a brief history anyway, as when...
Read MoreGarden Sheds and Garden Design Tips
Garden sheds take on many guises and have come a...
Read MoreCelebrating Trees
Celebrating Trees is about taking time to appreciate and wonder...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for November
We’ve had a mild autumn in the UK so far,...
Read MoreRuby Wedding Anniversary Plants and Flowers
Ruby Wedding Anniversary plants and flowers is a gardening inspiration...
Read MoreGrowing Spider Plants
Growing Spider Plants is one of the ways many of...
Read MoreMid Autumn Gardening Tips & Ideas
Mid autumn gardening tips has easy tasks and ideas that...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for October
Early October gardens still have a feeling of lushness about...
Read MoreBought More Plants than You Meant? Help is Here!
Have you ever bought more plants than you meant to...
Read MoreIs Ivy Weed or Wildlife Habitat?
Is Ivy Weed or Wildlife Habitat? It’s a good question....
Read MoreMichaelmas Daisies – Still an Aster?
For me, the sight of Michaelmas daisies enlivening flower borders...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for September
If you felt that this British summer was hotter than...
Read MoreBokashi Composting
Bokashi Composting is possibly totally new to you. Perhaps you’ve...
Read MoreRhododendron ponticum – Do You have One? Options!
Rhododendron ponticum is one of those examples where a plant...
Read MoreAllotments
Allotments are part of British cultural history. Perhaps you have...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for August
Here’s hoping we get warm sun during the day and...
Read MoreTypes of Dahlia – Glorious Blooms
The phrase ‘types of Dahlia’ are where these wonderful flowers...
Read MoreHow to get Front Garden Kerb Appeal
Achieving front garden kerb appeal can be as easy or...
Read More17 Herbs for Summer Drinks
Summertime: why not celebrate with a drink? These 17 herbs...
Read MoreGardening Tasks for July
How can we have had half the year already? The...
Read MorePlants don’t take Holidays: How to keep your garden alive while you do!
Wouldn’t it be amusing if when you went to Portugal...
Read MoreWhat are Hybrid Tea Roses?
What are hybrid tea roses? You may well ask 😉 And...
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