Geoff Stonebanks shares some funny stories, shocking moments and favourite visitors from his years of opening his garden.
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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.
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.
Winter-flowering clematis
Plants that flower in the winter bring joy to the garden. Geoff Hodge shares some of the most beautiful winter-flowering clematis.
Gifts for Gardeners
If you are looking for last-minute ideas to treat a gardener, we’ve got some great garden gift ideas.
Slug solutions
It’s been a summer of slugs, slugs, slugs. Here are five ways to get one step ahead of your slimy nemesis without resorting to pesticides.
Fresh garden ideas at Driftwood By Sea
Award-winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks shares some new ideas for his garden for 2024.
How do I pickle my surplus vegetables?
Here’s some top tips on preserving vegetables by pickling them. This is good for onions, cucumbers and beetroot to name a few veg.
How to create drama in a garden
Geoff Stonebanks dresses his garden like a film set to create drama at every step.
How do I make garden compost?
For some reason making garden compost has been swaddled in an air of myth and mystery and yet it is a natural process that we can replicate and harness very easily in our gardens. You don’t need a large garden and actually you don’t need a lot of kit either. You simply choose your composting […]
What are Tree Lilies?
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.
How do I overwinter my tender and half-hardy plants
WIth winter fast approaching Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned advice regarding overwintering plants
Meet Martyn Cox
Spreading the love of gardening in a friendly accessible way is at the very core of Richard Jackson’s Garden. That’s why we are delighted to welcome Martyn Cox as our NEW Brand Ambassador
Five things to see at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2019
Jean Vernon selects five things you need to seek out at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
Ideas to take home from RHS Chelsea 2019
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
Five New Products at Chelsea Flower Show 2019
One of the lesser appreciated aspects of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, are the garden products and accessories launched at the show. Fortunately there’s a special award for The RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year and this year there’s a shortlist of twelve interesting products. Launched in 2011, the competition sees entries judged on […]
