Garden Water Fountains Provide Impressive Outdoor Features

One of the fear ways to improve the environment is to think about adding a water feature into the garden, there is a whole range of benefits that come with doing this and it will without doubt bring a totally new dimension to your garden. There are lots of ways to add a water feature [...]

Stone Garden Features

Natural beautiful stone garden features make for a fantastic focal point in any garden environment. Available in a wide array of shapes, sizes and styles, from Planters and Troughs to Standing Stones, Bird baths and Spheres, the only limits are your imagination. Whether you are looking for a feature for your patio, a piece to [...]

General Features and Description of Outdoor Dining Furniture

Outdoor Dining Furniture There is wide range of outdoor dining furniture in the market. They are inclusive of like aluminum outdoor dining furniture, teak outdoor dining furniture and rattan outdoor dining furniture. Sometimes we need advice for choosing the right dining furniture set for your garden. However there are drawbacks to choose a set of [...]

Plant of the week: Pinks

A beautiful fragrance that will transport you back in time Pinks are front-of-a-sunny-border plants where drainage is good (they love chalk) and compact pot plants elsewhere, with a delicious old-fashioned fragrance. ‘Gran’s Favourite’ has raspberry-ripple colouring; ‘Devon Cream’ is soft yellow with pink flushes, and ‘Alan Titchmarsh’ has frilly white flowers with a pink blush.

In the garden this week: Courgettes, plus hanging baskets

Sow replacement courgettes now, plus how to stop hanging baskets drying out Courgette succession You might be starting to harvest courgettes , and the glut days are ahead, but the plants won’t go on all summer. Sow replacements now, and they’ll be ready to pick up the slack when the primeval ones run out of steam.

Stumped? Best gardening books and compost advice

Which authors will get us off to a flying start? Plus my compost hasn’t broken down We are about to purchase a new home with an acre of mature gardens. The current occupants are virtually self-sufficient, and we are keen to grow as much organic fruit and?veg as we can, but we have limited experience (tomatoes, blueberries and herbs on a roof terrace)

Perfect peonies | Dan Pearson

Bright, durable and delightful, peonies will last half a century – but their annual show is all too fleeting When my family acquired our childhood garden in the mid-1970s, it had already been in a serious say of neglect for the ideal part of 40 years. We came upon several treasures in the undergrowth, but few things were quite as unbothered as a stand of peony that marked the site of a long-forgotten border.

Stumped? Mature manure and unruly jasmine

How can I make this dung usable? Plus my jasmine’s not climbing I recently purchased some bags of stable manure from a roadside site, but found it to be pretty fresh, which I?understand is not suitable for applying to my garden

Gardens: Prettify the potager

Why we British relegate our veg beds to the far corner of?the garden when the French laud and love them for their beauty and crops alike?

Alys Fowler: Sowing biennial seed, plus beat the beet leaf miner

For swathes of flowers that won’t cost a fortune sow biennial seed now, and protect your Swiss chard from this devastating fly There are many ways to?live and die in the plant world, but how often reproduction happens is set in stone?– either once (monocarpic) or over and over again (polycarpic), like an apple tree. Monocarpic plants flower, set seed and die.

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