If you love gardening, our magazine will inspire you. It's a real magazine, not just a newsletter, and it's packed full of interesting articles written by professional gardening journalists. It's totally free and arrives once a month by email. Here is a selection of recent articles.
The days are getting shorter and temperatures dropping, but don’t let it get you down - embrace winter’s beauty with cheerful berries, bark and blooms. Berries and hips: As well...
Low maintenance gardens are ever popular in our busy world. A design that includes good structure with plants and materials that don’t need much upkeep will avoid the garden looking...
Parsnips are fabulous winter root vegetables that can be harvested up until January, once the foliage dies back. But their flavour is improved if you wait until after the first...
Bulbs are a must for early spring colour, and if you haven’t yet planted yours, there’s still time. It can be a labour-intensive job, but having the right tools saves...
For Tessa Johnstone, Director of Johnstone Landscapes, creating beautiful outdoor spaces is about far more than planting and construction. It's about craftsmanship, respect for the natural environment, the people behind...
It’s getting colder, the leaves are falling fast and it’s time to tidy up dead and tatty growth and prepare for winter. Here are 10 jobs to be getting on...
This garden is quite a challenge. At one hectare, it's a substantial plot, and when we arrived, it was something of a wilderness. Part field, part rubbish dump, there was...
For some garden designers, the journey begins with plants. For Jamie Langlands, it began with art. Growing up in Dorset, surrounded by the wild cliffs of the Jurassic Coast, rolling...
We've all done it. Stuck a finger into the soil, decided it feels a bit dry and reached for the hosepipe. But what if your garden could tell you when...
This eight-acre Oxfordshire garden was established in 1932 by Miss Beatrix Havergal as the School of Horticulture for Ladies. A stern and spirited lady, she ran the school until 1971,...
Once seen as the preserve of flower shows, dahlias are more popular than ever thanks to social media – with their fabulous showy blooms getting thousands of likes on Instagram. ...
Plants have long been used for medicinal purposes, helping with a range of ailments from coughs and colds to wounds and stings. These are five plants to grow in your...
Autumn is the time to clear up the garden and begin soil preparation and bulb planting for next spring. 10 jobs to put on the list: Tall shrubs like buddleia...
What do you get when you combine horticulture, six-inch heels, a generous helping of sequins and a determination to make gardening feel like it belongs to absolutely everyone? You get...
This is a great time of year to use pruned plants, found and recycled materials to create a bug hotel which can support insects in your garden, giving them shelter...
There’s no denying it: September is spider season. As well as encountering those enormous house spiders which seem to wait until you’re settled on the sofa to gallop across your...
If your garden has any paving, patios or mono block, this could be one of the most useful tools you own. A hand weeding knife has a thin, angled blade...
How are your hydrangeas? If they’ve survived this summer’s heatwaves then by now they might just be propping up your borders with their blousy, beautiful blooms. Hydrangeas are a stalwart...
The autumn equinox takes place this month, on the 23rd September. It’s one of the two points in the year when the days and nights are of equal length, the...
Plant elephant garlic Have you ever grown elephant garlic? Larger than regular garlic, it’s technically a bulbous leek, but has a mild, sweet flavour and is delicious roasted. Early autumn...
