Richard Jackson reveals his favourite gardening book of the year.
Garden design
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.
Five new garden products
We all love the latest goods and gadgets, but you rarely get the chance for a sneak preview. Every September the garden industry gets together at the NEC for the Glee trade show, where they display their wares to garner orders from the industry’s buyers. It’s the perfect place to get a sneak preview of […]
Charlie Dimmock defends decking
TV gardener Charlie Dimmock says the biggest ever garden TV hit Groundforce will never return.
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
Five ways to garden for health and wellbeing
Five ways to garden for health and wellbeing-simple ways to incorporate atmosphere and calm in a small space
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
Garden Design Tips
Geoff Stonebanks shares his garden design tips that he used to make the most of his garden.
Five ideas to take home from RHS Chelsea 2018
Ideas are great, especially when you can adapt them to fit your budget, situation and dreams. At this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show there are ideas aplenty wherever you look. Here are five you could take home and recreate in your own way in your garden. Shading We don’t often have a long hot summer […]
Five Chelsea 2018 Show Gardens
As the dawn lifts on this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Main Avenue is liberally seasoned with glorious show gardens to inspire and enthrall the crowds. Once again the garden designers have worked their magic with the plant nurseries and growers and landscapers to create gardens fit for the greatest show on earth. The sun […]
Five things to see at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2018
If you are planning to visit the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2018 then go. It’s a great spring show with lots of fabulous plants, gardens and events to educate, inspire and entertain. Nestled in the Malvern Hills, the Three Counties Showground has a magical, green backdrop of rolling hills. With a blue sky and a […]
Show Gardens at RHS Chatsworth
Visitors to RHS Chatsworth Flower Show are in for a treat says Jean Vernon
This June the very first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show opened it’s gates to visitors. The weather was not very kind, with high winds and torrential rain closing the show on Press Day and creating parking issues for those that braved the elements. For show stalwarts who refused to be repelled, the show offered plenty of fresh and innovative gardens, exhibits and displays. The show gardens were a delight, with a range of Free Form creations, that ducked under the judging radar and some show gardens that would have been just as at home on main avenue at RHS Chelsea.
Highlights of Chatsworth Flower Show
Jean Vernon picks her favourite features of the new RHS Chatsworth Flower Show.
Meet Tommy Cross
Tommy Cross is the brains and some of the brawn behind Home Ground Landscape Garden Design.
Gardening with seaside challenges
The garden at Driftwood by sea survives and thrives in the coastal climate, but it’s not without effort and management. Award winning garden designer, Geoff Stonebanks shares his tips on gardening with seaside challenges.
Driftwood Garden on BBC Gardeners’ World
Geoff Stonebanks shares the planning and all the excitement and anticipation of having his fabulous Driftwood Garden featured on BBC2’s Gardeners’ World
Five Great Show Gardens at Hampton Court
Jean Vernon picks five fabulous show gardens at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2016.
Five Small Gardens from Hampton Court
Jean Vernon picks her five favourite small gardens from this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show.
Ethnicity in horticulture
Garden designer Juliet Sargeant says more can be done to attract different cultures and ethnicities into the horticulture industry.
Exciting new plans for RHS Gardens
The Royal Horticultural Society has just announced a £165 million investment plan for two of its gardens.
A £165m investment programme will see two leading UK gardens transformed by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Driftwood Garden transformation
Geoff Stonebanks charts the transformation of his Driftwood Garden since 2004; from a blank canvas to the award-winning garden it is now.
Gardening in the sky
Wardian London is a new development of two skyscrapers, containing 624 new private apartments each with its own ‘sky garden’.
The garden kitchen
Cooking outdoors has become the on-trend way to cater for family and friends when the weather allows and a barbecue is the perfect way to cater for unexpected guests or to throw a garden party.
Secret seaside garden
Jean Vernon visits Driftwood Garden in East Sussex. It’s a secret seaside garden with so much to inspire.
Triffids, sculpture and wildlflower meadows
In Jean Vernon’s blog this month she battles triffid-like bindweed, sees the Barbara Hepworth inspired garden at the Tate and visits a wildflower grower.
The Chelsea Tinge
Chelsea Flower Show is not the centre of the universe, but for one week a year it becomes the pinnacle of all that is great in gardening and horticulture. Having had the privilege to be there, here are a few of my highs from the show.
Ideas to take home from Chelsea
Not everyone can or wants to go to RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Simply spend a little while watching the show coverage on television, online and social media.
Chelsea garden sculpture
Take some garden sculpture home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, or just get inspired to recreate a few ideas in your own way at home.
The best of Chelsea
It’s show time! RHS Chelsea Flower Show is on again. Jean Vernon picks her 5 favourite show gardens in 2015.
Shake up at RHS Chelsea
Alan Gardner, who has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, is set to shake up the gardening establishment by exhibiting a show garden at Chelsea Flower Show for the first time – as well as starring in his own Channel 4 TV series.
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