If hot weather, dry soil and sunny spells are wreaking havoc in your garden then choose plants that have adapted to hotter and dry conditions.
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How to harvest, ripen and increase your garden bounty
How to harvest, ripen and increase your garden bounty, Martyn Cox helps you make the most of your garden edibles with some timely GYO advice.
Get ahead with growing your own fruit and veg
Martyn Cox helps you harvest some fruit and vegetable treasure and offers advice to keep your plants productive.
Five plants to attract butterflies
Encourage more butterflies into your garden by choosing plants with nectar rich flowers
Buying plants
At this time of year, it’s all go in the garden. There’s lots to get on with, including planting up beds, borders, containers and hanging baskets. Geoff Hodge has plenty of advice about buying plants. Get the most from your garden centre purchases and choose wisely with his sage advice
What is RootBooster and does it work?
Already a fan of Flower Power, Geoff Stonebanks takes a look at RootBooster and its benefits for his container based garden.
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.
Meet Primrose ‘Everlast’
Primroses are an elegant early spring flower, creating a splash of colour on the banks, meadows and at the edge of the hedgerows. There is something very pure and graceful about these native wildflowers. You probably grow primulas in your garden. There are lots of brightly coloured amazing hybrids and varieties to add colour and […]
Does Flower Power Plant Food really work?
Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks reveals his most asked visitor question and explains why, for him, Flower Power has become indispensable.
My Flower Power Story – Our Magic Potion
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
How can I use colour creatively in the garden?
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
What’s all the fuss about begonias?
If there’s one type of summer container plant that has the WOW factor in spades it’s the begonia
What makes begonias good garden plants?
Geoff Stonebanks explains how he uses garden begonias in his award winning garden
Garden highlights of a decade at Driftwood
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!
How do I overwinter my tender and half-hardy plants
WIth winter fast approaching Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned advice regarding overwintering plants
How can I use containers creatively in the garden?
Plants in pots and containers make up parts of most gardens, but they can be used to plant larger areas too, giving you lots of options in terms of plant choice and design.
