Features and Advice

Geoff Hodge unravels the mysteries surrounding garden secateurs to help you get the best from these useful pruners.

Top tips and tricks for making the most of a small garden space from Michael Perry.

Martyn Cox has some advice on how your unruly autumn plot can easily be tamed within a few hours, leaving it in great shape until spring.

Herbal teas are a fantastic way to enjoy home-grown herbs, Debi Holland offers some sage advice on how to grow your own tea garden.

The Autumn leaves are falling, the nights are drawing in but that doesn’t mean you have to stop gardening.

Congratulations to Pauline Keeling, our September photo comp winner. Pauline will receive £50 worth of Flower Power products.

Beginner gardeners could be forgiven for thinking that soil is just, well soil. Martyn Cox gives you the lowdown on soil.

Debi Holland unravels the myths, magic and truths of garden therapy.

Debi Holland chooses Five Autumn Bulbs for Spring Colour

Martyn Cox helps demystify gardening with his friendly and accessible advice.

Get the kids into guerrilla gardening by making seed bombs to add colour to the garden. This is an extract from a new book on children’s gardening by Matthew Appleby.

Our gardens have become a haven away from the chaos of the rest of the world. Jean Vernon offers advice on staying safe in the garden

Prise the kids away from their screens and give them a reason to get outside into nature. Debi Holland has lots of ideas

Jean Vernon suggests some inspiring and simple ways to create some privacy in your garden

Make some bright and cheery cane toppers for the garden, they will protect your eyes and make a jaunty splash of colour. Clare Matthews gets the children involved in this garden project.

If you have access to a garden, you have an open door to reach a little deeper into its offerings and calm you mind, body and spirit, explains Debi Holland

Geoff Stonebanks helps you to consider the value of your fences, trellis and walls as valuable vertical surfaces to train your plants?

Step back to look at your garden from a different angle. Change a few things to make more of your garden with these simple garden ideas.

Forget about long distance travel this summer, instead make the most of your garden and use it as the perfect staycation destination says Debi Holland

Bored of pots and planters? You don’t need to buy special containers for your plants. Why not recycle something to create a more unusual display? Debi Holland offers some suggestions

Jean Willis started feeding her plants and garden with Flower Power and the results were so amazing that she was approached by a Britain in Bloom Judge to enter, and she won!

Make a high tea for a special friend, or bake a cake for a birthday, Geoff Stonebanks shares two of his most popular open garden day recipes