Features

Brigit Strawbridge Howard captivates, informs and inspires in her entrancing new book Dancing with Bees

When a plant fertiliser helps you keep winning gardening competitions, it’s time to share the secret

 Geoff Stonebanks uses summer flowering bulbs to augment his garden containers with great effect

Grow salad all year round with these tips from the gardeners of yesteryear. Plant and sow now for delicious and nutritious winter ingredients.

Vicki Cooke explores and unravels the beautiful flat flowerheads of the carrot or umbellifer family

Tamsin Westhorpe is all in favour of replacing fences with hedges – here’s why…

Gardening is not just all about colour. Add interesting leaves and floral fragrance to bring additional richness to your surroundings and you’re on your way to something far more satisfying.

Garden birds need all year round support. You can create a beautiful garden full of fantastic plants that not only look good but feed the birds too.

Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks shares his tips for growing perennials, shrubs and specimen plants in pots

The best-selling Christmas plant of them all, poinsettias are sold in a range of sizes and colours. They make great pot plants, but with a bit of creativity can also be used as decorations.

Jean Vernon extols the virtues of the winter evergreens holly and ivy explores some of the myths and legends that relate to some of these seasonal plants

A Christmas wreath is one of the easiest decorations to make and it is quite easy to collect all the foliage you need to make one from the garden.

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

Top tips and advice on planting tulips in the garden and lawn from Geoff Stebbings.

WIth winter fast approaching Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned advice regarding overwintering plants

As we enter the 2020’s, we reveal some of Geoff Stonebanks gardening highlights over the last 10 years and take a look at some of his aspirations for the coming decade!

Geoff Stonebanks explains how he uses garden begonias in his award winning garden

If there’s one type of summer container plant that has the WOW factor in spades it’s the begonia

Garlic is one of the easiest vegetable crops to grow in the garden. Read our advice and tips on planting, choosing varieties and growing.

Vicki Cooke Kitchen Garden Keeper at Hampton Court Palace, offers timely advice on sowing and growing from seed.

Susan and Keith Wells were gifted Flower Power by a grateful neighbour, now they use it in their garden and call it their Magic Potion

Geoff Stonebanks is an instant gardener, because he wants the area he is creating or changing to look like the image he has in his head, instantly

Already a fan of Flower Power, Geoff Stonebanks takes a look at RootBooster and its benefits for his container based garden.

Step away from the news and social media and go outdoors. Your garden, local park or balcony can be your personal sanctuary. Simply stop, take a deep breath and inhale the wonders of nature.