It may be that we have forgotten why and how to plant a native British hedge but opting for a easy to grow and maintain hawt…

Carrots may be one of the most traditional vegetables in the garden but there’s a new trend to be much more colourful when i…

Wood ash is an excellent source of lime and potassium for your garden and provides many of the trace elements that plants ne…

We asked the Devon pond experts at Bow Garden & Aquatic Centre to give us their advice about how to give your pond an ea…

For too often this super food berry has had a reputation of being troublesome – needing acidic soil, cross pollination…

Magnolias and their astonishing goblet or star-shaped flowers are perhaps the oldest genus in the world and of course the ad…

Timing is everything when it comes to bringing new life and vigorous growth to your plants by splitting your perennials One …

The bestselling Victorian garden writer with the unusual name brought gardening to the masses in this country in the 1870s w…

Garden centres are now bursting with piled high choices for compost, but how do you make the right choice for the right gard…

Arsenic, strychnine and nicotine were just some of the poisons used by Victorian gardeners who thought nothing of using them…