Edible flowers have been one of the surprise successes of the last few years. Many of us are suspicious of the idea of eating flowers, but they do look so pretty on Instagram. So the search term ‘edible flowers’ rocketed during lockdown, with people mainly wanting to know where they…
Today’s top garden ideas at this year’s BBC Gardeners World Live were logs, corten steel, ponds, coloured garden furniture and more mixing of veg and flowers. They can all be used in traditional, naturalistic or contemporary contexts. BBC Gardeners’ World Live has three garden shows a year, featuring experts from…
If you buy your garden border plants from the people who grow them, you’ll benefit from their expert advice and knowledge. That’s why going to a plant fair can be such a rewarding way to buy plants. The Plant Fairs Roadshow is a collective of independent plant nurseries, who organise…
Garden borders are at the heart of the garden. It’s probably the first thing any visitor to your garden sees. It’s the major splash of colour in most gardens. And it’s also likely to be the element that you enjoy the most yourself. So I went to the famous West…
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…
Garden structure means the permanent elements of your garden, and how they relate to each other. It’s the paths, pots, walls, fences, arches, arbours and pergolas. It’s the trees and evergreen hedges – all the elements left when plants die back for the winter. But this isn’t just about how…
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