Take steps to prevent your pots and garden getting tired and loosing vigour whilst working hard to delight. A little chopping, snipping an...

When it comes to our  bedding plants  it’s all about having a huge choice and it always has been in over 40 years of producing summer...

  It’s all about summer perennials the first big wave of herbaceous colour or the first hot hit as geum Totally Tangerine strikes out in fab...

June is a month to be enjoying the garden but with a little bit of care and some snipping and deadheading you can keep those ...

Here are a few suggestions of what you can be getting on with in the garden this month.

Edible flowers are a hot topic at the moment and whilst I do not recommend taking risks with something new if you may have allergens and man...

Here are some step by step photos of us making up a basket   There are different ways of potting up baskets and we don't always fol...

  Welcome to the spring season, to the abundant gorgeous shrubs, perennials, roses, climbers  and our full arboretum of trees. 

This weekend we 'got going with grow your own'. It doesn't stop at vegetables. Home produce includes indispensable herbs for coo...

This was recommended by a Hosta grower on Gardeners world.

  My own garden salad. Made impromptu from my herb garden. Sorrel, wild garlic, Salad Burnet, chives, mixed salad leaves, lambs lettuce, fla...

Companion planting is usually something we discuss in reference to protecting our vegetables from pests and enhancing their growth.  Herbs ...

  Beautiful low matt forming perennial alpines.

Syringa meyeri Palibin So here are my 2 dwarf lilacs in their full glory. These are in bud and just waiting to flower. This is a much sm...

Another gorgeous viburnum with evergreen foliage, fragrant spring blossom and great autumn colour. This is Burkwoodii

One of the big spring favourites Spirea x arguta out in early spring. A feathery tall shrub with a cascade of bridal like white flowers. It...

Lamprocapnos Spectablis, Dicentra Spectablis or good old Bleeding Heart. What ever you now call this perennial it is just lovely. Vin...

Exochordia  xmacrantha, one of my all-time spring favourites it is soon to be absolutely flush with flowers. Otherwise known as the pearl ...

Magnolia stellata (Star Magnolia) Magnolias really about to have their month of glory. I have seen the deep purple Susan, soft pink Betty,  ...

Here is what you could be getting on with in the garden this month

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