Garden Advice

Updated 2024: This guide will show you why mulching your garden flower beds, and backyards can help you become a better gardener. By adding a thick mulch to your garden borders your garden gets a needed boost for flowering and vegetable growing. Mulching has incredible benefits, such as reducing weeds, reducing the need to water, […]

Trees are a vital part of any successful garden design. Even the most miniature garden can accommodate a suitably sized tree. Trees add height, interest, a habitat for wildlife and privacy. There’s so much to love about including trees in any garden! If you have a small garden, did you know you can plant trees […]

As small garden trees and fruit trees start to grow each year the chances of lower branches becoming too heavy to support the fruit is a real issue. If you leave these lower branches to continue to grow and bear fruit the likelihood is they will start to droop to the flower and could tear […]

Roses are the quintessential English garden plant. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t have a fondness for the rose. Whether it be that bridal bouquet, Valentine’s Day or visits to English country gardens; the rose is one of the most iconic garden flowers. However, the beauty of roses also comes with some […]

Lawn edging is a really effective way of keeping your garden flower beds and lawn looking sharp all year round. In fact – it’s one of my garden design secret weapons! I use edging in most of my designs to help reduce garden maintenance and increase the amount of time you get simply enjoying your […]

Now that your seeds have germinated, you may suddenly struggle to work out what to do next. Well, the next stage in growing your own plants is known in the gardening world as ‘pricking out’, where we take seedlings and separate them into their own pots. If we don’t prick them out they get congested, […]

Whether you have just planted a hedge or inherited one in your garden, this guide will show you how to efficiently cut a hedge. Ignore those fears that cutting a hedge is a full weekend of drama. It really doesn’t have to be with the correct technique and tools. Hedges provide our gardens with a […]

Updated 2024: Pruning is one of the key parts of creating and maintaining a gorgeous garden. However, many gardeners avoid pruning due to a lack of confidence or not really understanding how to prune. This guide is going to explain why you need to prune in the garden and then how to prune plants perfectly! […]

Now I know what you’re thinking, but you don’t need to be a Samurai to use one or train with a Sensei gardener for years on a remote Japanese island. Once you’ve got the hang of using a hori hori, I guarantee you’ll never look back! Whilst the Hori Hori gardening knife may look quite […]

I don’t know of any gardener who 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 nutrient-rich leaf mould compost. It costs virtually nothing and if you don’t […]