If you’re re-vamping your garden border this year, I’ve picked out the best borders from the gardens featured on the Middlesized Garden. Plus there are key tips from their head gardeners. The first tip is that if you’re going for a complete re-design, you do need to clear the border…
It’s easy to grow chrysanthemums. And they’ll add brilliant late-season colour. When the rest of your garden is collapsing gently into the beginnings of winter, chrysanthemums will carry on blooming. They come in a wide range of colours and styles, from demure daisy types to vibrant swirls of outrageousness. So…
Autumn and spring are the best time to plant perennials. So that’s also the best time to fill gaps in your border, move plants – or even revamp your border completely. Why spring and autumn are the best time to plant perennials In winter, the ground is not only cold,…
Do we take daffodils for granted? My Twitter feed is packed with people posting images of snowdrops in February. They’re beautiful. Snowdrops are so sweet and innocent – the first murmur of spring. Then, of course, there is the show-stopping beauty of tulips from late March onwards. Both snowdrops and…
If you want dramatic garden colour in spring, then you have to grow tulips. And they are easy to grow. They don’t always come back the following year the way many other bulbs do, so you may have to re-plant them every year. But they are so beautiful that they…
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