How to grow fresh rhubarb
To grow fresh rhubarb is easy but you need to be patient. Once established rhubarb will keep on cropping for many years with little attention from you! It’s a firm favourite with British [...]
Great Winter Flowering Shrubs
Great winter flowering shrubs can shorten winter! Is that overstating it? Well perhaps but it can certainly make those dark dank days of winter more bearable. It will be [...]
By Alan Down
Posted Seasonal Evergreens for Christmas
Seasonal evergreens for Christmas include bay laurel, rosemary, holly and ivy. They all have their place at this time of the year but I do wonder if we sometimes forget how valuable they are in [...]
By Alan Down
In Gardening for Wildlife, Ornamental trees, Seasonal Gardening, Trees and Shrubs, Wildlife, Winter colour
Posted Berried Treasures for Winter Colour
The autumn leaves have had their turn and now it’s time for berried treasures for winter colour! Some berries are revealed as leaves fall to the ground, others sparkle among evergreen foliage and [...]
By Alan Down
Posted Should You Put the Garden to Bed?
I shudder every time I hear that phrase ‘put the garden to bed for winter’! Okay, so if you own a great pile and have to open your garden to raise funds to fix the hole in the roof I can [...]
Re-plant your plant containers
Re-plant your plant containers now! Are your patio pots still filled with petunias and your hanging baskets with begonias? Well, whatever is in them, it’s time for a seasonal change! That’s [...]
How to get late summer colour in the garden
How to get late summer colour in the garden? Here’s how you do it – Keeping the show going in August can be a challenge! The early summer flowering perennials and shrubs look tired [...]
By Alan Down
Posted Plant up your pots for Summer!
It’s time to plant up your pots for summer! If Easter Weekend is the traditional time to plant out potatoes then surely May Bank Holiday is the time for getting a great display for summer! [...]
Virtual Garden Day
A virtual Garden Day is on the horizon! It’s annual celebration of gardens and gardening is going to have to be markedly different to the previous three. What is a Virtual Garden Day? In [...]
By Alan Down
In Annuals and half hardy seasonal plants, Container gardening, Gardening, Grow your own, KinderGarden plants, Seasonal Gardening, Summer colour
Posted A beautiful garden with KinderGarden plants
Creating a beautiful garden with KinderGarden plants is easy but you need to start early! Wouldn’t it be great to produce a garden just like this? Well although this is a demonstration [...]
