Advice and Tips
Watering tips for containers
If you are struggling to keep your containers properly watered or you’ve got a hosepipe ban, we’ve got some timely advice to assist.
Jean Vernon
Jean Vernon is a slightly quirky, bee friendly, alternative gardener and award winning writer. She doesn’t follow the rules and likes to push the boundaries a bit just to see what happens. She has a fascination for odd plants, especially edibles and a keen interest in growing for pollinators especially bees. She’s rather obsessed with the little buzzers. Telegraph Gardening Correspondent, RHS Wildlife writer and Editor-In-Chief for Richard Jackson’s Garden.
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Wildlife
How to help hoverflies
Hoverflies are important pollinators in our gardens. Jean Vernon explores five ways in which you can help to support them.
Plants
Five new plants from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
We pick five of our favourite new plants launched at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including the winner!
Inspiration
Chelsea Show Gardens 2025
Every year the show gardens at RHS Chelsea showcase different ideas, messages and concepts. The line-up for 2025 includes gardens that provide fun and sanctuary for our canine friends, talking trees and climate resilience.
Wildlife
Ground-feeding birds
Don’t forget to look after the ground-feeding birds. These are the birds that don’t usually visit your seed and peanut feeders. Many of our garden birds are ground-feeders.
Feature, Wildlife
Five Garden Tits
Many of our birds are familiar but some are harder to tell apart than others. Get to know some of your garden tits and learn how to recognise them more easily.
Plants
Can I grow some nuts?
If you fancy your very own supply of homegrown nuts, now is a good time to plant some.
Wildlife
Five garden finches
Some of our garden birds belong to the finch family. These feathery delights eat seeds, even the seedheads of your garden plants and also ‘weed’ seeds. Jean Vernon explains.
Inspiration, Plants
Fabulous festive herbs
Transform your Christmas celebrations by using herbs grown in your garden.
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Gifts for Gardeners
If you are looking for last-minute ideas to treat a gardener, we’ve got some great garden gift ideas.
Plants
Grow some autumn fireworks
Don’t waste money on loud, explosive fireworks, instead invest in some plants that will light up your garden with autumn colour for years to come.
Plants
Five autumn drama queens
Make the most of nature’s party plants and plant some colour and vibrancy for autumn.
Wildlife
Five fun mini-beasts
Get to know some of the fun and funky creatures that live and breathe in our gardens this summer. Here are five to fascinate the kids.
Wildlife
Slug solutions
Slug activity slows in cooler weather, but they are still ready and waiting to emerge when conditions allow. Winter is a good time to take stock and plan your slug defence strategies to keep your...
Plants
Five great biennials from seed
A biennial is a plant that flowers the year after they are sown, and there are some really great types that you can grow.
Plants
Five new plants from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Plant addicts really got a treat at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower show. The hotly contested RHS Plant of the Year 2024 competition had some fabulous new plants on the shortlist.
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