Growing for scent
Gardens don’t just look fabulous they smell amazing too. Jean Vernon explores how to add scent and perfume to your garden.
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Gardens don’t just look fabulous they smell amazing too. Jean Vernon explores how to add scent and perfume to your garden.
Summer without herbs is like a glass without the wine. One without the other is unthinkable. But there are some herbs that are summer personified and a must have for every garden.
My 5 top plants at Driftwood that give the garden that ‘Wow’ factor and certainly give me more bang for my bucks too. What’s more they flower well too!
Cosmos plants are easy to grow in the garden, look beautiful and are a magnet to bees and butterflies. Cosmos is easy to grow from seed.
The hedgerows are bursting with elderflower and the garden is rich in fruit ripening in abundance. You can preserve the taste of summer right now, using fresh ingredients from your garden.
Debi Holland offers five reasons why flowers are good to grow in among your veg
Many new gardeners are starting out with tiny growing spaces such as balconies. Jean Vernon suggests some small space growing solutions.
The Sanctuary Gardens at RHS Chelsea harness the power of nature. We pick five of our favourites.
Chelsea 2022 is lush, lavish and just lovely. It’s packed with prolific, joyous and inspiring plantings, alive with pollinators and rich in fabulous textures.
If you are going to this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 2022, we’ve got a sneak preview for you. Here are five things not to miss at this year’s show.
Jean Vernon visits the extraordinary Houseplant Studios at RHS Chelsea 2022.
One of the great things about flower shows is the opportunity to find great ideas to take home and recreate in your own garden. Here are a few ideas we liked at this year’s Chelsea 2022.
New plants are the lifeblood of horticulture. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year award celebrates the nurseries and breeders developing new varieties and is hotly contested.
Did you know that in the UK we have about 24 different species of bumblebees? It’s hard to be precise because some are so rare they are on the brink of extinction and sometimes we gain an extra species from...
Read moreGeoff Stonebanks shares his tips for propagating plants for plant sales.
If you want to do more to help save the bees you need to turn your attention to your garden bees, says Jean Vernon.
Geoff Stonebanks’ award winning garden is pretty much completely contained in pots and planters so he knows a thing or two about growing in containers.
Rose expert Michael Marriott chooses roses that are good for pollinators such as bees.
There’s a new, natural and exciting way to protect your box topiary, box hedges and box plants from the box moth caterpillars.
If your box plants are struggling, we might have the answer to your prayers.
If you are visiting the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this season, Jean Vernon offers some things not to miss.
It’s easy to get more plants in your garden for free. Jean Vernon picks out five of her favourite self-seeding plants.
Michael Marriott picks his favourite climbing roses to plant at the front of your house.
How to grow the biggest, best and most flavoursome salads, vegetables and fruit.
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