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Are you dreaming of a wedding filled with personal touches and heartfelt moments? One beautiful way to infuse your special day with meaning is by growing your own wedding bouquet, but don’t be fooled by online DIY bride guides. Growing your own bridal flower bouquet is not for the faint of heart! Whether you’re a […]

As a beginner gardener, bare root planting can be a bit confusing. Usually, we tend to buy plants that are container-grown and in full leaf (not with their roots exposed, looking all sorry for themselves like the bare-root rose below). Bare roots are plants lifted and sold when they are dormant, usually in winter. This […]

It can be easy to become confused between a formal and informal garden style. Certainly, because some fusion gardens mix the two muddying the design waters. This garden design guide to formal gardens will show you how to spot one, design a formal garden and why you may choose one for your own garden space. […]

Gardeners are a patient group. After sowing seeds, you need to wait and let Mother Nature take over. Constantly tapping your toes, staring longingly at those seed trays for signs of life waiting for seed germination. For some annuals, it’s relatively fast, maybe a week, yet for other herbaceous beauties, they make you wait even […]

I’m the kind of chap who likes to think of myself as part of the solution, not the problem, which is why I took to Garden Without Plastic for an entire year alongside its champion, garden writer Sally Nex. Sally has been taking to the press columns, and I shall be taking to both my […]

Do you sometimes look out into your garden and feel disappointed that it looks empty or all crammed in for a few fleeting moments? Does your garden seem to run away with itself and be a firework that goes off once a year and then fizzles? If this sounds like your garden, you must join […]

Sustainable, peat and chemical-free gardening is nothing new for the Barnsdale Gardens team, who have been growing in a peat-free compost for over 30 years and have had great success with the wide range of plants using this peat-free medium. Geoff Hamilton, was a pioneer in organic gardening using peat and chemical-free techniques and the […]

Hello, fellow green-thumbs. It’s Garden Ninja here, your trusty guide to all things gardening. Today, I’m here to revolutionize your gardening calendar by extolling the wonders of autumn planting over the traditional spring or summer sowing. There are so many benefits to planting up a garden in autumn and often new gardeners think they can […]

Shrubs play a vital role in the garden’s aesthetic by providing structure and texture to help connect your gardens planting scheme. They also offer a home for wildlife and ensure that any garden design has a good grounding with what we garden designers call ‘punctuation‘ (the ability to break up an eyeliner with shrubs or […]

When it comes to designing a garden, more often than not, our excitement to fill our gardens with beautiful flowers, trees, decorations, and furniture can sometimes get the better of us. In our haste to create the perfect garden, many gardeners make some fundamental mistakes. These garden fails can often undo all the hard work […]