Gardening Tasks for October
Early October gardens still have a feeling of lushness about them that slowly changes as the daylight hours shorten. We […]
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Bought More Plants than You Meant? Help is Here!
Have you ever bought more plants than you meant to at the nursery, garden centre or when visiting a plant
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Is Ivy Weed or Wildlife Habitat?
Is Ivy Weed or Wildlife Habitat? It’s a good question. Although I get asked about ivy whichever ‘hat’ I’m wearing,
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Michaelmas Daisies – Still an Aster?
For me, the sight of Michaelmas daisies enlivening flower borders and pots is a vivid snapshot of this particular point
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Gardening Tasks for September
If you felt that this British summer was hotter than usual you’d be correct! Provisional figures from the Met Office
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Bokashi Composting
Bokashi Composting is possibly totally new to you. Perhaps you’ve heard it mentioned and wonder whether it is a way
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Rhododendron ponticum – Do You have One? Options!
Rhododendron ponticum is one of those examples where a plant species has been introduced to serve a practical purpose and
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Allotments
Allotments are part of British cultural history. Perhaps you have an allotment, small or large. Or perhaps you used to
Gardening Tasks for August
Here’s hoping we get warm sun during the day and gentle wetting rain overnight so we can spend more time
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Types of Dahlia – Glorious Blooms
The phrase ‘types of Dahlia’ are where these wonderful flowers are divided into groups, placing similar Dahlia varieties together. For
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How to get Front Garden Kerb Appeal
Achieving front garden kerb appeal can be as easy or as difficult as you make it. True, it depends somewhat
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17 Herbs for Summer Drinks
Summertime: why not celebrate with a drink? These 17 herbs for summer drinks will suit you nicely whether you’re after
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Gardening Tasks for July
How can we have had half the year already? The months seem to be racing away and yet I feel
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Plants don’t take Holidays: How to keep your garden alive while you do!
Wouldn’t it be amusing if when you went to Portugal for two weeks; your garden went on holiday to Cornwall? If only!
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What are Hybrid Tea Roses?
What are hybrid tea roses? You may well ask 😉 And the simple answer is that they are most people’s idea
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Carpet Bedding – Brief History of a Living Tapestry
lthough similar, carpet bedding is not exactly the same as planting out bedding plants in your garden. The differences between
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7 Fun Tips for Gardening with Children
What are our 7 fun tips for gardening with children?Well, yes, you could buy them a child-sized trowel, and point
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Using Coffee Grounds in Your Garden
You’ve read the ‘coffee grounds are magic’ but also ‘coffee grounds are rubbish’. So what is the reality of using
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Spice up Your Summer Borders
Do you have a garden that is wonderfully colourful in spring … but then by mid-June is a desert of
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Types of Tulips
How many types of tulips are there?! Having first seen acres of them growing in Holland at the age of
Tips for Pet Friendly Gardens
Tips for pet friendly gardens – I asked the clients what they wanted, and then reported back to the humans
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7 Plant-Savvy Tips for Budget Gardening
There is always some point in our gardening life when we need to economise. With the title of 7 plant-savvy
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Elements of a Formal Garden: A Guide to Timeless Design
Rather than jumping straight in to discussing the key elements of a formal garden, I’d like to ask you a
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What is an Annual Plant?
The question “What is an Annual Plant?” comes up quite frequently mainly in gardening lessons and workshops, but at design
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Doves and Dovecotes, Saints and Flowers
Doves and dovecotes – the link to your garden, or to a large, country house garden is obvious. But what
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Oranges and Lemons Fun Facts
“Oranges and Lemons say the bells of St Clements” Or so goes the eighteenth century nursery rhyme. Which at the
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Elements of a Romantic Garden for Valentine’s Day
What are the elements of a romantic garden? Are they perhaps poetical? “ For you, a romantic garden I shall
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Plants called Snake – Chinese New Year
Plants called Snake in celebration of Chinese New Year 2025, for your delectation – 15 in total. Houseplants and hardy
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10 Unusual Winter Flowering Shrubs
10 Unusual winter flowering shrubs to brighten your garden and provide food for pollinating insects. Some of the following will
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Coppiced Trees and Shrubs in Your Garden
This coppiced trees and shrubs in your garden blog explains what coppicing is and how to do it. The main
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8 Plants called Christmas
8 Plants called Christmas – a blog for you to read whilst enjoying a cuppa. And as well as naming
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Your Garden at the Winter Solstice
Is your garden at the Winter Solstice a quiet place, with all the herbaceous plants tucked up under a warm
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