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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