Recipes
Spiced Blackberry Muffins
Gather some wild blackberries and create these delicious homemade muffins with this recipe from Amanda Davies
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.
Wildlife
How to stop squirrels eating bird food
While they can be entertaining and fun to watch, most gardeners donโt feed the birds to fatten up the squirrels. Jean Vernon suggests some ways to stop the squirrels from eating the bird food.
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.
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.
Wildlife
What do I need to know about feeding garden birds?
It might sound daft but thereโs a bit more to feeding the birds than putting out birdseed. Jean Vernon offers some timely advice.
Grow your own
Are blackberries worthy garden plants?
Vicki Cooke extols the virtues of the humble blackberry.
Advice and Tips
Time to repot – or not?
Geoff Hodge explains whether itโs time to repot your container plants, or not.
Inspiration
Whatโs 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.
Edibles
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.
Lawns
Lawn care in drier summers
Help your lawn recover from drought with useful advice from Geoff Hodge.
Recipes
Tasty herbs for fresh tea
Transform some fresh herbs into a delicious drink and enjoy it hot or cold, says Jean Vernon.
Wildlife
How can I help garden slow worms?
Finding a slow worm in the summer garden is like finding treasure, but these enchanting creatures are under threat and need as much care as you can offer.
Plants
Five great foliage plants
Five great foliage plants to grow to your garden, including hostas, heuchera, begonias, ferns and ivy.
Inspiration
How to keep your garden looking great in hot summers
Geoff Stonebanks found an easier way to create and maintain the wow factor in his award-winning garden.
Plants
How can I extend summer in the garden?
Geoff Hodge helps us embrace the change of season and keep the last traces of summer going
