12 Best Hardy Tropical Plants UK The key to a lush, jungle-like garden is lots of greenery in many layers. Even in a small space, a tropical effect is simple to achieve by growing some or all of these 12 best hardy tropical plants. Choose taller, hardy plants to add height and drama, select …
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All Summer Blooming Flowers
All Summer Blooming Flowers Don’t you just love spring and summer? I do. Each day we gain more daylight time, gardens are lush and colourful, blossom is blooming in the hedgerows, fruit trees are popping, buzzing with pollinators, it’s a wonderful time of year. Now is the time to sow the seeds for all summer …
15 Best Night Scented Plants For A Scent Garden
15 Best Night Scented Plants For A Scent Garden I don’t know about you but I love to spend time in my garden as the sun starts to set in the evening, I sit back and enjoy some of the best night scented plants for a scent garden. I can relax after a busy day, …
10 Steps To A Perfect English Cottage Garden Design
10 Steps To A Perfect English Cottage Garden Design The quintessential English cottage garden design remains a firm favourite with many gardeners. Overflowing, curved borders are quite simply a joy to behold. Planted to look natural and wild they are the perfect antidote to regimented precision. Imagine a profusion of floriferous plants all a …
Wild Flower Garden Ideas
Wildflower Garden Ideas At this time of year, pathways, hedgerows, woodlands and verges are full of colour from wildflowers which give us plenty of inspiration for wild flower garden ideas. Their nectar rich blooms open with the aid of Nature’s perfect timing to coincide with hungry bees and pollinators who are waking up and …
Electric Heated Propagator Review
8 Of The Best Electric Heated Propagator Review If you are lucky enough to have a greenhouse you can create the best conditions for what ever plants you wish to grow. If not then a warm sunny windowsill is also an adequate environment. Or you can use an electric heated propagator. There are some …
Flower Garden Colour Combinations
Flower Garden Colour Combinations It’s the time of year when we are starting to plant out indoor sown annuals, direct sow some more and happily watching perennial plants popping up. Back in the autumn and winter we put our minds to what we wanted to grow this year, which flower garden colour combinations did …
Perennial Plants. First Year Flowering
Perennial Plants. First Year Flowering What Are Perennial Plants? Perennials are plants that live for 2 years or more. They flower each year usually in spring and summer following a period of dieback and dormancy. Some plants that are perennial in their native habitat are grown by gardeners as annuals due to the differences in …