How To Grow And Care For Hellebores How to grow and care for hellebores, it is really very easy, add these beautiful, simple flowers to your garden borders this winter. These increasingly popular flowers are a mainstay of our winter gardens, adding a wide range of colours to the winter palette as well as being …
Step By Step Guide How To Plant Spring Flower Bulbs Follow my Step By Step Guide How To Plant Spring Flower Bulbs for a successful, colourful display that will be the envy of your friends, family and neighbours. One of the nicest September through to December gardening tasks is planting all those lovely spring …
7 Best Ways To Drought Proof Your Garden 7 Best Ways To Drought Proof Your Garden that will help your plants and flowers survive during the drier than usual summer that we are experiencing in the UK I, for one, am loving the hot, sunny weather this summer but I appreciate that it is …
How To Make A Mediterranean Garden Today I want to give you some ideas and thoughts on how to make a Mediterranean Garden. If you have ever been on holiday or visited any Mediterranean country you will probably have some enduring memories of their plants, scents and natural design features. I want to …
How To Grow Peonies In Your Garden – Planting, Propagating and Care I want to share with you how to grow peonies in your garden, from which ones to choose to tips and help on planting, propagating and caring for them with confidence. These beautiful plants are a must and hopefully this article will encourage …
Lunar Gardening A Basic Guide To Gardening With The Moon I see that moon gardening is trending, it isn’t something that I have ever looked into. As a self professed Selenophile and professional as well as hobby gardener I have decided that it is high time I did some research into lunar gardening. I went …
Softwood Cuttings Technique 6 Easy Steps Propagating new plants by the softwood cuttings technique 6 easy steps is possibly one of the most satisfying gardening jobs you can do. If, as I am you are gardening on a budget, learning to propagate new plants from your favourite shrubs is a canny way to save money. …
Fun Gardening Ideas For Children I am a strong advocate for engaging children in their outdoor surroundings, environment and gardens. There are endless fun gardening ideas for children that will help you as parents, teachers, grandparents and family to give children a sound introduction to the joys of gardening. I sometimes think in these days …
How To Create A Green Roof On Your Garden Shed Developing additional green spaces is paramount to this planets’ well being. Natural green areas are becoming more and more scarce, particularly in cities and towns, we can help the environment by using all the outdoor space we have to grow plants in. So let’s take …
Autumn Lawn Maintenance in 5 Easy Steps Is your grass looking tired, patchy and generally in a state of disrepair? Don’t despair follow my autumn lawn maintenance in 5 easy steps and you will soon have your lawn ship shape again with an enviable bowling green quality to it. Clients often ask me how to …
