Geoff Stonebanks gives an insight into the autumnal hues at his award winning garden Driftwood Garden
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How can I make my garden containers more festive?
Geoff Stonebanks shares his festive tips and plants for garden containers.
Easy Savoury Summer Treats
Every summer Geoff Stonebanks bakes lots of different cakes, sweet and savoury for his open garden, to raise money for charity.
Two of the most popular savoury treats that Geoff makes for his garden visitors over recent years are his ricotta cheesecake and his savoury muffins. Here he shares his recipes.
Which bulbs are good for pots?
Geoff Stonebanks share’s his advice for planting bulbs in pots and containers
How to really enjoy your garden
Geoff Stonebanks learns ways to enjoy his garden in lockdown and offers his hard earned advice. In a ‘normal’ year, Geoff Stonebanks opens his summer garden to hundreds of visitors, offering copious refreshments including tea, cakes and even lunch and afternoon teas. This year, the garden has been closed, giving Geoff a time to stand back and take stock.
How can I make more of walls and fences?
Geoff Stonebanks helps you to consider the value of your fences, trellis and walls as valuable vertical surfaces to train your plants?
Sweet treats for garden visitors
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
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.
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.
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 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.
What specimen plants can I grow in containers?
Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks shares his tips for growing perennials, shrubs and specimen plants in pots
Which summer flowering bulbs work well in containers?
Geoff Stonebanks uses summer flowering bulbs to augment his garden containers with great effect
How do I water container plants?
As a complete novice, as I was back in 2009 when I began gardening, I suppose the one thing I did not think of when creating a garden with so many containers, is the impact the watering would have. If we have many more summers like 2018 I’ll probably have to rethink my garden design. […]
Tips for growing in containers
You can learn a lot from a garden that consists of over 250 pots and containers and wins awards, Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned tips
Spring bulbs in containers Driftwood
Create a crescendo of colour in your pots and containers, says award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks
Five Fab Sussex Gardens
The rolling Sussex countryside overflows with garden inspiration. Here are five exceptional gardens to explore. Research now and compile your ‘must visit’ garden’s wish list for this season
What bedding plants are best for containers?
Geoff Stonebanks shares his selection of annuals and bedding plants for containers
What sort of containers should I use in my garden?
Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard earned experience on choosing pots and containers for his garden
Can I garden in containers?
Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks explains why he uses over 250 containers at his Driftwood garden in Sussex and the key benefits of using containers
How do you get the garden ready for winter?
Geoff Stonebanks explains what’s involved in putting his award winning garden to be for winter.
The Global Garden
Gardens are collections of plants from all over the world, Geoff Stonebanks explains how his garden attracts visitors from all over the globe
How do you keep a garden looking good?
After the summer to remember! Geoff Stonebanks shares his tips of keeping display of garden colour going
What is the Chelsea chop?
Geoff Stonebanks explains the Chelsea chop and some other techniques he uses in his award winning garden
Spring gardening
March certainly hails the start of 12 weeks of hard graft. It’s the calm before the storm and usually the first month when the weather starts to improve.
Don’t get the winter blues
Don’t let the winter blues get the better of you this season, Geoff Stonebanks shares some of his top ways to appreciate your winter garden.
Richard Jackson’s Garden’s blogger invited to Buckingham Palace
Geoff Stonebanks met HRH Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace reception after raising over £95,000 for charity by opening his award winning garden, Driftwood.
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