Your guide to Perfect Plants

Should you keep up with fashion trends in the garden? You might not associate plants and gardens as being subject to fashion, but they are indeed. For instance, you can date many gardens by looking at their planting style or choice of hard landscaping materials. Here's a run down of...

Does your front garden have kerb appeal? What does the view of your home say about you, and how much does it matter? In fact, do you ever step back to notice how it looks? The chances are that you concentrate on your back garden because it's more private and...

  The Hellebore season is almost here. At the dawn of the new year, these sturdy perennials begin to shine. Despite their fragile appearance, they can withstand just about anything that nature brings. Snow, ice, rain, they just don't really care. What will damage them is too much direct sunlight...

Here's six reasons why a crab apple could be the tree for you! If you have the desire to plant a tree in your garden, and, let's face it, there's are fewer more rewarding tasks, why should you consider the humble crab apple? The retort is why not?. There are...

Hedera is a humble ivy plant with so much to offer. Six reasons to LOVE this evergreen. Ivy is an unsung hero of the plant world that has so much to offer that it’s difficult to know where to start. This is a plant that can be used indoors and...

Don't let the light bulbs effect pass you by. Here's your Eureka moment to help stave off depression.  Why is this particular week said to be one of the busiest of the gardening year? It's all about bulbs! Now that autumn has officially arrived, (it's the equinox on Friday 22...

What are those  Lavender fields forever, and how do we use this herb? Lavender is considered by most of us to be a quintessentially English sub-shrub, that we love to see and smell.  But did you know that Lavandula is actually a Mediterranean plant that was brought over to Britain...

The trend for fake grass shows no sign of abating, indeed we seem to be in love with artificial lawns rather than the biodiveristy this product replaces. One of the best things about having a garden revolves around wildlife and living things. Have you noticed, for instance, how quickly natural...

Crimes against trees, don't be guilty of committing these planting offences!  Whatever tree you plan to plant (and every garden should have at least one), the most important gift you can donate is to plant it correctly. This will help to prevent major problems in the future, including dangerous loss...

10 gardening habits that have changed over the last 50 years. A lot has changed in 50 years. Did your granny or perhaps great granny like to see the soil between the plants and expect garden shrubs to stay in neat little mounds? She probably expected the edges to be...

Here's 6 ideas to action after experiencing RHS Chelsea Flower Show RHS Chelsea Flower Show is possibly the greatest flower show on earth and it's taking place this week! Even when it's gone, it doesn't need to be forgotten aned there are, of course, more flower shows to enjoy – including...

Sit and stay! How to train a human to enjoy their garden ‍This dog is quite good at sitting. But are you? Find it difficult to sit down? Gardeners and garden-lovers generally share this tricky trait. They love their gardens so much that they just have to keep adjusting them....