Award-winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks shares some new ideas for his garden for 2024.
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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 […]
Tips for growing in containers
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
What sort of strawberries should I grow?
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 […]
Are you dreaming of a white Christmas?
If you are tired of the rush of red poinsettias that hit the shops before the festive season, look out for the crisp white beauties available this season and ring the changes
Let us rewind, lettuce history
Vicki Cooke rewinds history and unravels the myths and magic of the humble lettuce
Five Chelsea 2018 Show Gardens
As the dawn lifts on this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Main Avenue is liberally seasoned with glorious show gardens to inspire and enthrall the crowds. Once again the garden designers have worked their magic with the plant nurseries and growers and landscapers to create gardens fit for the greatest show on earth. The sun […]
Five great companion plants for grasses
Grasses offer so much for the busy gardener; from sheer beauty to longevity and ease of use. They are also very adaptable and work easily with any number of other plant groups such as bulbs and perennials.
Keeping chickens in the garden
Tamsin Westhorpe encourage us to have a fresh egg a day. Follow her timely advice on keeping hens in the garden.
Five great hepaticas
When it comes to early spring flowers, Hepaticas are among the most beautiful. On bright sunny days their flowers open wide to display their simple beauty and unobtrusive charm.
Spring gardening
March certainly hails the start of 12 weeks of hard graft. It’s the calm before the storm and usually the first month when the weather starts to improve.
Don’t get the winter blues
Don’t let the winter blues get the better of you this season, Geoff Stonebanks shares some of his top ways to appreciate your winter garden.
Winter garden joy
Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks helps find joy in the winter garden and shows how garden sculpture can add much interest.
Gardening resolutions
It’s time for a fresh start. Tamsin Westhorpe offers some ideas to help you to keep those gardening resolutions
Is bonsai the next gardening trend?
Jean Vernon goes undercover at the RHS Flower Shows and spots the latest and hottest new trend in the world of gardening
Show Gardens at RHS Chatsworth
Visitors to RHS Chatsworth Flower Show are in for a treat says Jean Vernon
This June the very first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show opened it’s gates to visitors. The weather was not very kind, with high winds and torrential rain closing the show on Press Day and creating parking issues for those that braved the elements. For show stalwarts who refused to be repelled, the show offered plenty of fresh and innovative gardens, exhibits and displays. The show gardens were a delight, with a range of Free Form creations, that ducked under the judging radar and some show gardens that would have been just as at home on main avenue at RHS Chelsea.
Meet Tommy Cross
Tommy Cross is the brains and some of the brawn behind Home Ground Landscape Garden Design.
Greenhouse Growing
Pippa Greenwood explains the wonders of having a greenhouse and shares some timely tips and advice
Watercress, citrus and radish salad
This recipe from delicious magazine for simple watercress, citrus and radish salad makes a perfect quick side dish.
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