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 …
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Best Plants For Growing In Chalky Soil
Best Plants For Growing In Chalky Soil Is your garden on chalky, alkaline soil? Fear not, there is a huge choice of colourful, interesting plants for all seasons that will thrive on this low nutrient soil. My choice of the best plants for growing in chalky soil will give you inspiration and successful planting. As …
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, …
Is your Garden Spring Time Ready?
Is Your Garden Spring Time Ready? As a gardener I am completely in tune with the seasons, in the dark winter there is less to do in our gardens and on cold wet evenings I love to cosy up in front of a roaring fire with a warm drink, perusing seed and plant catalogues, …
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 …
Hardy Evergreen Flowering Shrubs
Hardy Evergreen Flowering Shrubs Spring is a beautiful time of year, everything is starting to grow, with leaf buds unfurling and blossom beginning to show. Hardy evergreen flowering shrubs are starting to add to the mix too. We’re well into April and our gardens are a mass of lush, bright, young greens. Spring bulbs …