Heucheras And Their Friends by Martin Blow
Heucheras and their friends, tiarellas, are among the most popular foliage plants for a shady garden these days with lots of new varieties, new leaf colours and patterns being introduced each year. However, heucheras started their horticultural story being grown and bred for the cut flower trade with masses of pink, white or red bells along stiff wiry stems up to 2½ft / 75cm long. […]
Choosing And Caring For Your Christmas Tree by Katherine Sorrell
We help you to make the most of your festive centrepiece.
Some prefer a real Christmas tree while others argue for artificial. We offer some arboreal insights. […]
Feeding Our Feathered Friends
As the winter draws in, spare a thought for the garden birds. If temperatures are low, they’ll need lots of energy to keep warm and stay alive. They are often in need of food and clean, fresh water.
Most food scraps are suitable but avoid anything which is spicy or salted and ensure it will not encourage vermin. […]
Gazebo Goodness! by Nicki Jackson
If you’re one of the thousands of people considering the purchase of a gazebo this year – looking to provide a sheltered outdoor space for friends and family to socially distance under cover but outside – here are some tips and tricks to making the most of your new garden addition. […]
Late Bloomers by Martin Blow
Autumn is the time some of us cut back and tidy up our gardens ready for the winter. But the autumn garden can be full of colour as some plants are just beginning their show. Here’s some of my favourite late bloomers. […]
Saving More Than Just Seed by Brian Clarke
How many of us have heard the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’? I’m guessing quite a few, but how many went on to ask whether those five magic beans were F1 hybrids or open-pollinated? Does it matter? Well, it may have to Jack’s mother, especially if she intended saving the seed from that huge beanstalk to grow it again next year! […]
Garden Maintenance – How Low Can You Go? by Nicki Jackson
Ask a client what they want from their new garden design and 9 times out of 10 the phrase ‘low maintenance’ crops up. If it’s something that is high on your wish list too here are a few things to think about that, if implemented, will start moving your garden along from the high, towards the low, end of the maintenance spectrum. […]
A Ring Of Bells by Martin Blow
Bellflowers, known properly as Campanulas, are an amazingly varied family of plants. Nearly all have bell-shaped flowers, but they come in all sizes of plants from creeping carpeters for the rockery to stately giants for the back of the border. Some are woody-based clump-formers others are frankly invasive thugs, but with careful choice there’s a bellflower for most gardens. […]
Dining in the Kitchen by Katherine Sorrell
Design a comfortable, practical and stylish place to sit down and eat in your kitchen.
Preparing dinner while your children do homework at the table, or chatting to friends while you cook a tasty meal, is hugely appealing. […]
A New Look For Your Windows by Katherine Sorrell
Window treatments can complement a room’s architecture, disguise a poor view, link the inside to the outside and add texture, colour and pattern. […]
