Are you looking at plants in your garden and wondering why they aren’t flowering? I am. And I’ve discovered a surprising reason why my cosmos plants don’t even have any buds on them. So to get to the bottom of what stops garden plants from flowering, I asked local flower…
You can group pots to create a complete ‘garden border.’ Or you can drop pots into a border to fill a gap or add colour. If you garden in a rented garden or a very small space, you can achieve the colour and impact of a herbaceous border with a…
You don’t have to do all the late winter gardening jobs on the gardening ‘to do’ lists. Some may not be relevant to your particular garden or gardening style. I believe that successful, happy gardening is ultimately about working out the best approach for you. Whether you choose to do…
A cottage garden mashup means taking the elements of English cottage garden style and mixing it with your own local plants to create a garden that’s unique to you. I first heard the term from Bill Bampton of the Diggers Club, who used it to describe their Heronswood garden He…
I first really saw prunella as a herbaceous border plant in my sister-in-law’s garden in Australia. It isn’t a show stopper. But I consider it amongst the top perennials because it is charming and easy. It flowers for months at a time, either in sun or quite shady spots. It’s…
A winter container garden display can give the garden such a lift. You can enjoy winter pots in the front garden every time you come home. And just a few pots near the house in the back garden can give your back garden focus and structure at a time when…
The first question anyone asks about pruning hydrangeas is ‘when should I prune?’ The Royal Horticultural Society says that you should prune hydrangeas in late winter or early spring. That’s February or March in most of the UK. Others will say you shouldn’t prune until March. The dried hydrangea flower…
It’s time for the potting shed tidy up. While I’m sorting the tools and accessories, I’ll picking out which ones I want to replace or repair and which I’ll throw away . The best quick shed tidy tip I hate tidying, so I have to force myself. One trick I’ve…
Of course, as with fashion, not everything you see will transfer to your own garden. The flower borders, for example, are fantasy. Enjoy them! But many of the garden design ideas and details transfer brilliantly to real gardens, especially as show gardens are designed in such a limited space. So…
The way you plant a tree makes a huge difference to whether it will survive. A badly planted tree won’t necessarily fail in the first year, according to award winning garden designer Jamie Butterworth, MD of Form Plants tree and shrub nursery. But it will fail at some point. And…
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