Discover how growing blueberries in a container provides delicious fruit, autumnal colour and seasonal interest. There’s something wonderful about growing your own fruit, especially when it can be enjoyed in a delicious homemade dessert. If you love apple crumble, why not try adding some freshly picked blueberries? Growing blueberries in [...]

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Make your garden stormproof this October by securing plants, structures, pots, gutters and water storage. Our unpredictable climate indicates that we’re likely to experience more storms over the next few months. Now is a good time to make your garden more stormproof whilst the weather is still relatively mild. Taking a few precautions can [...]

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Harvesting apples and pears at the right time helps you enjoy and store fruit successfully. September is a lovely month in the garden. It’s generally still and quiet, radiating the feeling that nature has done its job for the year. However, if you have apple or pear trees, there is one job that still needs [...]

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Rhubarb is a wonderful plant to add to your garden, growing delicious and bright stems. Rhubarb is one of the easiest edible plants to grow. It’s frost-resistant and doesn’t need much care and attention. You can grow rhubarb from seed, but it’s much easier to plant a dormant crown. These are taken from strong [...]

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Dahlias are the plant that keeps on giving. From summer to the first autumn frosts these prolific flowerers will light up your garden with their beautiful displays. In fact, in the right conditions, a dahlia is capable of producing 100 blooms in a season. Also, they come in a wide variety of shapes, [...]

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Planting crocus in early autumn is a simple way to guarantee colour after winter. In September and October, the soil is cool, moist, and easy to work with. This timing allows roots to establish before hard frosts, setting up stronger flowering in spring. You can still plant into November if the soil is workable. [...]

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Updated 19/09/25 Spring bulbs light up the garden with their bright colours, heralding the end of the dark winter months and the start of a new year. Their cheerful flowers are full of the promise of sunshine. Many of us grow spring bulbs in pots and borders, but a great design idea is to [...]

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Updated 11/09/2025 As summer turns to autumn, many plants begin to fade – but there’s still a whole host of plants that will give autumn colour. Shrub up well Autumn is a wonderful time for shrubs because they offer something special for extra interest: berries. Symphoricarpos (snowberry) and firethorn are both [...]

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Updated 11/04/25 If money grew on trees then we gardeners would live like kings. It doesn’t, unfortunately, but there are many brilliant ways to get the garden you want without shelling out huge sums, and taking cuttings is one of them. Taking cuttings from your current plants is a superb way to increase [...]

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Updated 09/04/25 Fill your winter garden with scent, colour and silhouette! Don’t let the garden go bare and dormant over the cold months. With these winter-flowering plants you will be sure to brighten up your pots and flower borders in no time. Heather Winter-flowering heather adds long-lasting colour and texture. It looks [...]

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Updated 07/02/25 Autumn is a great time to get new shrubs, trees and hedging into the garden. They are naturally dormant at this time of year and the ground is still soft and workable. Bare-root plants are great because they are cheaper than containerised plants and can get established really quickly. They are [...]

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Planting crocus in early autumn is a simple way to guarantee colour after winter. In September and October, the soil is cool, moist, and easy to work with. This timing allows roots to establish before hard frosts, setting up stronger flowering in spring. You can still plant into November if the soil is workable. [...]

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The unique thing with bulbs is you see them in Spring but can only plant them in Autumn. I am often asked questions about my design and layout of bulbs and when they are in flower. For those of you who have sent me questions on [...]

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Updated 11/01/25 Galanthus, or snowdrops, are among the first flowers of the year and always popular with gardeners. They seem to mark a crossover between winter and spring, poking up through the dormant ground in January. Their delicate pendant flowers eventually open and nod gently in the breeze. [...]

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This October is the ideal time to start planting spring-flowering bulbs. It's an easy way to bring you colourful, scented joy for months on end from early New Year onwards. The Main Spring-Flowering Bulbs Snowdrops (Galanthus) The pure white flowers of snowdrops are some of the earliest [...]

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Man cleaning lawn mower blade. Preparing to mow some grass. QMy lawn has been growing in patches during the warmer spells over winter, but I didn’t cut it. Is it ever OK to cut your lawn over winter? If not, when should I start cutting it again? Robert, Swindon AFirstly, it is [...]

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Garden suntraps can make life difficult for gardeners. In hot gardens, high temperatures bake the soil, driving out moisture and nutrients. Here are ten plants that have adapted to thrive in the conditions of hot gardens. 1. Achillea filipendulina (yarrow) This perennial is great in dry soils and full sun. It forms in clumps so [...]

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Add dimensions and form to your garden by incorporating ground cover that will soften the landscape. You don’t have to just choose ground cover plants that look great, because you can choose edible ground cover plants too. Thymus citriodorus (lemon thyme) First up is a lovely evergreen, with leaves [...]

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Although things may be slowing down in the garden after a successful growing season, autumn is an incredibly exciting season. Autumn is nature’s time for planting, when the ground is still warm, and frosts haven’t quite set in. Here are my top tips for planting in autumn. Choose the right time [...]

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Halloween is an exciting, fun-filled evening, made extra atmospheric by all the orange and black colour themed decorations used to dress up the house and garden. Adding dark colour plants to the displays helps create that ‘spooky spirit’ feeling.  They also make the perfect backdrop for all those amazing carved orange pumpkins and [...]

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