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…
If you grow daffodils, they’ll come back year after year. Tulips are outrageously colourful and gorgeous, but usually disappear after one or two years. Daffodils are the most easy-going spring flowering bulbs. Not only do they come back, they will often spread. Daffodils are also considered to be deer, squirrel,…
We all have summer garden problems. People who write, film or photograph gardening are often accused of making everything look unrealistically beautiful. And sometimes we do. I’ve found myself lying or standing in some very difficult positions just to get that perfect beautiful shot of a plant because everything around…
Does the difficult summer mean you have dying plants in your garden? And what should you do about it – cut off the dead leaves and add fertilizer? No! Both could be the worst possible thing you can do! I asked a top professional gardener what we should do instead.…
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