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Is Winter the Best Time to Plant Trees?
Brussels Sprouts Fried Rice Recipe by Chef Jess Rose Young
The Best Privacy Plants to Screen Your Neighbours
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View allGrowing Potatoes: The Complete Guide
How to Plant a Hedge
How To Train a Fruit Tree
Heritage Vegetables: Seeds or Plants?
Heritage vegetables are the old fashioned, flavour-packed varieties that filled our fruit bowls before supermarkets insisted everything had to be the same shape, size and colour. Read moreGet inspired
View allRose Garden Ideas: Layouts, Colours & Planting
Balcony Garden Ideas for Beginners
The Best Grapes to Grow in UK Gardens
Essential Plants for Winter Wildlife
Plant trees and flowers that benefit winter wildlife - nectar for early bees; fruit, seeds and shelter for birds; nuts for small mammals. Read moreGrowing your own food
View allHow to Grow Blueberries in the UK
Storing Vegetables Grown at Home
The Best Grapes to Grow in UK Gardens
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Paste Button labelVegetable Planting Calendar UK (And When to Harvest)
Easy Vegetables to Grow: Our Top 10 Picks
Growing Vegetables in Pots for Beginners
Which is the Best Climbing Plant for Your Garden?
Planting Climbers: A Beginner’s Guide
The Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow in the UK
The Best Soft Fruit Plants (as Chosen by Our Growers)
Planting Fruit Bushes: The Complete Guide
How To Plant a Tree: Potted Trees and Bare Root
How to Choose the Perfect Tree
Best Pond Plants: Top 5 Plants to Bring Your Pond to Life
Planting Pond Plants: A Beginner’s Guide
Cottage Gardens: Design, Flowers & Layouts
10 Best Plants to Attract Bees to Your Garden
Planting Calendar UK: Month by Month
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Winter Hanging Baskets: Ideas, Plants & Tips
With a little help from our growers, I’ve put together some winter hanging basket ideas to brighten your garden all through the colder, gloomier months. -
Coastal Garden Plants & Design Ideas
If you live on the coast, gardening can present some challenges including salt air, poor quality soil and cold sea winds. Here's how to succeed. -
Balcony Garden Ideas for Beginners
Your balcony garden can be a relaxing space to unwind, entertain guests, welcome wildlife and source fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs - the sky's the limit! -
Free Plants: The Top Three Ways to Get Plants on a Budget
Everyone loves a bargain, and we gardeners are more canny than most. So what’s the best way of getting more plants without shelling out a fortune? -
Rental Garden Ideas
With a bit of creativity and this handy rental garden guide, there are lots of ways to get your dream garden, even if it’s not attached to your dream house… -
Garden Jargon Buster: Gardening Terminology Explained
I surveyed everyone at Roots HQ to find out which gardening terms used to mystify them (and still do if we’re honest), then asked our growers to explain. -
5 Reasons to Grow Dianthus (Pinks)
This deceptively tough little plant will bring scent, colour and structure to your garden for months on end - we think it’s a border essential and here’s why. -
Top 10 Shade Loving Plants
A woodland garden creates the natural beauty of a glade with dappled light filtering through to ferns, foliage and flowers on a variety of levels. -
Jenny’s Dahlia Garden - September Garden of the Month
We’re in Wigan with prizewinning dahlia grower Jenny Winnard. Dahlias are spectacular flowers, with colours, shapes and sizes in more varieties than we can count. -
Planting Calendar UK: Month by Month
Find out when to plant your trees, shrubs, perennials and climbers for the best results - and the best deals. -
What to Do with Your Plant When It Arrives
To get your new arrivals off to the very best start, here’s what to expect and what to do as soon as that box of dreams lands on your doorstep. -
Rose Garden Ideas: Layouts, Colours & Planting
From the traditional formal rose garden to more contemporary style plantings, roses have a place in every kind of planting scheme.
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