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1st April 2021
It’s April. The tulips and daffodils will soon be fading, primula are doing their thing. The warming soil spurs on fresh and lively new foliage from...
1st March 2021
There is no bigger cause of gardener frustration than slugs and snails. A hundred and one obscure remedies do the rounds, but which approaches really...
1st February 2021
With a little planning and preparation, many trees and shrubs can be moved if they are not best sited. Give them the space they need to flourish, and...
1st January 2021
It’s January, and generally our expectations of the garden are pretty low. But the fresh winter air carries uplifting floral fragrance like no other...
1st December 2020
No matter how your festive season is looking in this strange and uncertain year, setting aside some quiet time for a little garden dreaming and...
22nd October 2020
With the rapid rise in the popularity of no-dig approaches to gardening, there is also a growing interest in the use of green-manures to help protect...
30th September 2020
Roses were grown in ancient Babylon, and are depicted in tomb walls paintings in Egyptian pyramids built over three and a half thousand years ago...
3rd September 2020
September is a month when the garden relaxes into autumn and we appreciate the late summer bloomers that carry on through until the frosts. Don’t be...
3rd September 2020
It seems to have warmed up slightly over the past week, but the rain we've had means that if you can cope with the mess, now is a great time to start your autumn lawn care programme.

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