If you want to transform your garden on a budget, then Jo and Simon Rutherford have some brilliant tips and ideas to copy. When they moved into their home a few years ago, the garden was a patch of bare lawn running up to the fence line. There was a…
If you choose the most useful garden tools, you won’t waste money on tools you rarely use. And storing your tools will be easier. Space is tight in today’s homes, and many people don’t have room for a whole garden shed just devoted to tools. So I asked Dan Cooper…
We all want beautiful but tough perennials in our gardens this year. Temperate climates (those with spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons) are notoriously changeable. At Antique Perennials, Kinglake, Australia’s top perennial nursery, they know all about unexpected weather extremes. At first glance, the weather at Antique Perennials seems similar…
Planting slug resistant plants is the most effective way of stopping slugs and snails from devouring your garden. You may have read articles or seen advertisements promising that you can get rid of slugs and snails permanently. But you can’t. Slugs and snails will always return, no matter what you…
A rock garden – often called a ‘rockery’ – was once an essential element in both grand and smaller British gardens. Then they got too popular. Banks of stones and rocks were added to almost any garden, without any real thought or understanding. And then they were neglected. People stopped…
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