Recipes
Pear caramel
Make the most of your garden pears with this delicious recipe for pear caramel from Holly Farrell’s book, The Jam Maker’s Garden.
Features
Whatever your level of gardening experience we have a selection of articles, guides and videos to advise and inspire you in your garden! Make sure to check back as new content is published regularly.
Inspiration
Extend the season
It’s officially autumn, but that doesn’t mean the summer display is over. Jean Vernon chooses a few plants that will keep the season going for a longer lasting display.
Wildlife
How to stop squirrels eating bird food
While they can be entertaining and fun to watch, most gardeners don’t feed the birds to fatten up the squirrels. Jean Vernon suggests some ways to stop the squirrels from eating the bird food.
Advice and Tips
How do you keep garden containers looking good
When you open your garden for charity the garden has to look great. But what if it’s full of pots and planters? How do you keep it looking its best?
Inspiration
Restore the natural balance in your garden
If you want to work with nature and benefit from all her wonders you need to restore the natural balance.
Plants
Viburnums for every season
Geoff Stebbings recommends growing viburnums in every garden. Here are five viburnums you can grow, whatever your type of plot.
Wildlife
Five ways to feed the birds
Feeding the birds brings your garden alive, adding a delightful, animated and colourful dimension to your garden, says Jean Vernon.
Plants
Sow and grow wildflowers
Debi Holland finds ways to intermingle annual wildflowers between her perennial plants.
Grow your own
Are blackberries garden-worthy plants?
Vicki Cooke extols the virtues of the humble blackberry.
Wildlife
Exotic garden visitors
What exotic creatures have you seen in your garden this summer? Jean Vernon reveals and introduces some of the unusual beauties that have appeared in our gardens.
Advice and Tips
Your monthly garden – September
Hints, tips and advice to improve your September garden.
Recipes
Spiced Blackberry Muffins
Gather some wild blackberries and create these delicious homemade muffins with this recipe from Amanda Davies
Wildlife
What do I need to know about feeding garden birds?
It might sound daft but there’s a bit more to feeding the birds than putting out birdseed. Jean Vernon offers some timely advice.
Advice and Tips
Time to repot – or not?
Geoff Hodge explains whether it’s time to repot your container plants, or not.
Inspiration
What’s seasonal in the late summer garden?
Tamsin Westhorpe reminds us why September is a month to savour and celebrate. Late flowering perennials and seasonal fruit take her fancy.
