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.
Seeing hellebores shoot up from bare soil is one of the great joys of the winter months. They come in a gorgeous range of subtle hues from whites and apple...
Sedums, or as the taller variety have been renamed, Hylotelephium, really come into their own at this time of year with their flat umbels of flowers slowly turning to deep...
Also known as a white wood aster, this plant is the star of the show in autumn gardens. It has pretty clusters of tiny white daisy-like flowers on black stems...
Whatever your favourite colour, you can probably find a salvia in that hue as there’s such an array of colours and forms, flowering throughout the summer. Along with the culinary...
Hydrangeas are gorgeous shrubs. Their voluptuous flower heads make a fabulous statement in the summer garden and many take on pinky hues into autumn. There are masses of varieties to...
Hardy perennial geraniums are the quiet doers of the garden. They’re reliable, tough and incredibly useful at filling gaps, especially around the woody stems of shrubs like roses and smothering...
Clematis are fabulous for clambering through roses, up fences, walls and over shrubs and pergolas. There’s one for every month - the more the merrier we say! For spring, March...
Ferns provide elegant soft green foliage in shady areas of the garden. They’re wonderful when planted under trees with other shade-tolerant perennials such as white astrantia and which work best...
Euphorbias are fabulous foliage plants with many displaying brilliant lime green flowers in spring and summer. Here’s a rundown of a few of our favourites. One of the biggest varieties...
Tell us about your career path so far. My grandmother passed on her passion for plants and gardening. After leaving school, I started an apprenticeship at Ventnor Botanic Garden on...
There’s something magical about the way cyclamen lie dormant in warm weather, appearing again when temperatures drop. Despite their dainty appearance, they bloom through frost and snow and, in the...
Whether it’s splashes of inky tulips or swathes of purple foliage, dark hues add depth and drama to the garden borders. There is a wealth of dusky beauties to explore. ...
Frustrated by the limitations of container gardening on our balcony, we wanted a garden, so some years ago we relocated from London to the Cotswolds. We got our big garden,...
The sight of billowing pink or white cherry blossom against a cloudless blue sky is a joy to behold. In fact, this vision gave such comfort during the first Covid lockdown...
It’s a joy watching bees in the garden. Sadly, however, they’re on the decline due to systemic pesticides and loss of varied habitats, amongst other things. Bees are vital for...
As crafty projects go, this is pretty relaxed as you don’t need any tools or particular material, just twigs, wood and old pots lying around the garden – in fact...
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