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Geoff Stonebanks learns ways to enjoy his garden in lockdown and offers his hard earned advice. In a ‘normal’ year, Geoff Stonebanks opens his summer garden to hundreds of visitors, offering copious refreshments including tea, cakes and even lunch and afternoon teas. This year, the garden has been closed, giving Geoff a time to stand back and take stock.
If hot weather, dry soil and sunny spells are wreaking havoc in your garden then choose plants that have adapted to hotter and dry conditions.
How to harvest, ripen and increase your garden bounty, Martyn Cox helps you make the most of your garden edibles with some timely GYO advice.
Martyn Cox helps you harvest some fruit and vegetable treasure and offers advice to keep your plants productive
Encourage more butterflies into your garden by choosing plants with nectar rich flowers
At this time of year, it’s all go in the garden. There’s lots to get on with, including planting up beds, borders, containers and hanging baskets. Geoff Hodge has plenty of advice about buying plants. Get the most from your garden centre purchases and choose wisely with his sage advice
Already a fan of Flower Power, Geoff Stonebanks takes a look at RootBooster and its benefits for his container based garden.
Looking like lilies on steroids, tree lilies produce towering stems that are capable of carrying up to 30, dinner plate sized blooms in summer. Apart from their dramatic good looks, the flowers possess an intoxicating scent that makes spending time outside a true sensory experience.
Primroses are an elegant early spring flower, creating a splash of colour on the banks, meadows and at the edge of the hedgerows. There is something very pure and graceful about these native wildflowers. You probably grow primulas in your garden. There are lots of brightly coloured amazing hybrids and varieties to add colour and […]
Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks reveals his most asked visitor question and explains why, for him, Flower Power has become indispensable.
Susan and Keith Wells were gifted Flower Power by a grateful neighbour, now they use it in their garden and call it their Magic Potion
Geoff Stonebanks is an instant gardener, because he wants the area he is creating or changing to look like the image he has in his head, instantly
If there’s one type of summer container plant that has the WOW factor in spades it’s the begonia
Geoff Stonebanks explains how he uses garden begonias in his award winning garden
As we enter the 2020’s, we reveal some of Geoff Stonebanks gardening highlights over the last 10 years and take a look at some of his aspirations for the coming decade!
WIth winter fast approaching Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned advice regarding overwintering plants
Plants in pots and containers make up parts of most gardens, but they can be used to plant larger areas too, giving you lots of options in terms of plant choice and design.
Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks shares his tips for growing perennials, shrubs and specimen plants in pots
When a plant fertiliser helps you keep winning gardening competitions, it’s time to share the secret
Geoff Stonebanks uses summer flowering bulbs to augment his garden containers with great effect
As a complete novice, as I was back in 2009 when I began gardening, I suppose the one thing I did not think of when creating a garden with so many containers, is the impact the watering would have. If we have many more summers like 2018 I’ll probably have to rethink my garden design. […]
Even though plastic flower pots are recyclable, few get a second life before disposal. Jean Vernon offers five alternatives to plastic flower pots
There are so many inspirational gems at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, many are unachievable in most gardens, but here are five ideas from this year’s show to take home for your plot
Richard Jackson picks his favourites from this year’s RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year
You can learn a lot from a garden that consists of over 250 pots and containers and wins awards, Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned tips
Flower Power helped us win three garden competitions this season, says award winning garden owners Alex Redfern and Joe Shannon
Create a crescendo of colour in your pots and containers, says award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks
If you’ve never grown cannas you are missing a great gardening trick says Jean Vernon
Geoff Stonebanks shares his selection of annuals and bedding plants for containers
I was once party to a late night student debate about the most perfect fruit. The eventual winner was the strawberry, because of its mouth sized portions, no peel or core to deal with, no need for preparation or condiments and so sweetly delicious I have never met anyone who claims to dislike them. To […]
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