Tracey Hewitt

Beautiful Borders

23 stunning ground cover plants to create a tapestry of colour in difficult-to-plant areas

Ground cover plants are low-growing plants that spread easily to cover areas where nothing much wants to grow. For example, do you have bare patches under trees? Are you tired of weeding them and trying to keep them clear? Ground cover plants will help prevent weed seeds germinating in the…

Garden Trends & Design

Sloping garden solutions – the real truth about gardening successfully on a slope

Whether you have a steep, sloping garden or just a small bank, there are some key facts you need to know about gardening on a slope. However, once you understand the principles, you’re not restricted to any particular ‘plants that are suitable for sloping gardens’. You can plant the plants…

Garden Trends & Design

Perennials made simple – how to choose and grow the best plants for your borders

Perennials are the main flowering element of a successful mixed border. So I went to one of the UK’s premier perennial plant nurseries, Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants, to talk to Rosy Hardy about how to choose and grow perennials. What are perennials? Rosy says that a perennial plant is one…

Garden Trends & Design

10 low maintenance plants for an instant – but long-lasting – garden

I’ve been finding out about the ultimate low maintenance plants for an instant – yet long-lasting garden. And holiday homes really need easy-care gardens, because there’s so little time when a gardener can go in to maintain the garden. So Garden designer Posy Gentles has just designed two low-maintenance, high…