Garden Advice

Green roofs are incredibly versatile and beneficial to any garden. This guide on how to fit a green roof will show you how easy it is to green up your back garden shed. What has caused the increasing popularity of green roofs though? Green roofs can slow down the flow of torrential downpours, enabling sewers […]

This Orchid care guide will provide you with all the detail you need to keep your orchids flowering for months at a time and stop the unsightly yellow or black leaf problems. Orchids are now propagated on an industrial level in factories around the world and have been bred to be super resilient but whilst […]

The Hayter Osprey 46 is a rotary lawn mower designed for residential use. Hayter has been hand making mowers for the last 70 years and are renowned for their craftsmanship when making lawn mowers. They have a Royal Warrant which kind of says it all. They recently got in touch to see if I wanted to […]

How to mulch a garden Mulching is relatively easy to do and has loads of benefits for your garden and plants. By mulching your plants yoy can save time during the summer with watering and feeding. The aim is to either cover around the base of a plant with mulch or the entire bed. I […]

Councils have faced significant budget cuts in the last few years, mainly as a knock-on effect of quantitative after the recession brought on by the banking and financial sector crisis. I’m not going to voice my opinions on that sorry state of affairs, on whether it’s true that the establishment has always propped itself up […]

I don’t know of any gardener than likes cleaning up leaves, but come the Autumn months it is something that most gardeners need to tolerate. Leaf mould compost is an excellent way to rid yourself of wet slimy leaves and enrich your garden with a nutrient-rich compost. It costs virtually nothing and, if you don’t mind […]

However, there is another thought with front garden design. Why not turn this around and actually make it a space that greets you warmly as you come home, offers refuge, excitement, calm or invitation to your visitors? This guide will show you that you can have a functional, beautiful and environmentally sound space and it […]

Why do we need to repot plants? Root bound plants stagnate – After a few seasons or years, any container plant will eventually become root bound or root balled. This is where the roots of the plants reach the edges of the pots and carry on searching for water and nutrients by then growing back around […]

This raised bed guide will explain exactly when and how to use raised beds for successful gardening. Raised beds can be used in nearly all gardens regardless of the condition, or even absence, of soil. It allows you to build up and choose the soil you need for the plants or vegetables you want to […]

Planting bare root shrubs and trees is a preparation method often used to package and transport deciduous and sometimes evergreen plants. Trees and shrubs are lifted when dormant and the soil is then removed from the roots and they are wrapped ready to be replanted. So why do nurseries lift and sell bare root trees? […]

Garden designing with plants for shade is often approached with a look of worry, lip biting and sometimes avoidance. Planting for shade seems to fill people with dread. However, if Beth Chatto has taught us, designers, anything about garden plant choice, it’s to work with what you’ve got. I for one love designing with shade in […]