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Grafted Vegetable Plants: Are They Worth It?
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The Best Privacy Plants to Screen Your Neighbours
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View allGrowing Chillies: UK Beginner's Guide
Growing Sweet Potatoes: UK Beginner’s Guide
How To Train a Fruit Tree
Cherry Blossom Season: Japan’s Hanami Festival
When cherry blossoms bloom, you really know spring has arrived. Discover the origins of the hanami festival and how you can get involved in the UK. Read moreGet inspired
View allWildlife Pond Ideas, Plants and Tips to Attract Nature
Which is the Best Climbing Plant for Your Garden?
The Best Grapes to Grow in UK Gardens
Kitchen Garden Ideas for a Doorstep Harvest
Kitchen gardens use the available space to its best advantage and provide all the veg you need all year round. Here’s how to get started. Read moreGrowing your own food
View allGrowing Raspberries: A Beginner’s Guide
How to Store Plums and Use Up Your Crop
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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Apple Trees in Pots: A Grower’s Guide
Tight on space? Follow our grower's tips for successful apple trees in pots - from picking the right variety to feeding and pruning. -
Winter Pond Plants: Care Guide
To keep your garden pond clean and the plants healthy (as well as looking amazing), you need to do a little weeding and pruning once a year. Here's how. -
Pruning Apple Trees: A Complete Guide
Give your apple trees a boost with a yearly prune. We asked our experts for their advice on how best to do this with every type of apple tree. -
Pruning Fig Trees: An Expert Guide
If you want to prune, it can help to maximise your fig crop, reduce the size of your tree or just keep it nicely shaped. Here’s how. -
Pruning Cherry Trees: Fruiting and Flowering
Need to prune your cherry tree? Here are tips straight from the growers to keep your fruiting and flowering cherries healthy. -
How to Prune Grape Vines
Grapevines can live for decades or even longer, so it’s important to give them a good start and prune them correctly throughout each stage of their lives. Here's how. -
Pruning Climbers: A Grower’s Guide
Find out the best time to prune your climber and how, and you’ll be rewarded with better flowers, fewer problems with diseases and well shaped plants. -
Pruning Roses: A Grower’s Guide
Everything you need to know about pruning roses - the single most important thing you can do to make your roses healthier, stronger and more productive. -
Bamboo Care Guide: Planting, Pruning and Problem Solving
Follow our growers’ bamboo care tips and your bamboo will go from strength to strength, giving you a naturally beautiful garden feature for many years. -
Pruning Fruit Bushes, Canes and Vines: A Beginner’s Guide
Soft fruit plants are easy to grow, but to reach their full potential and produce a great crop year after year, you’ll need to do a little pruning. Here's how. -
Pruning Apricot Trees: The Ultimate Guide
If you want your apricot tree to be healthier, more productive, better shaped and more pest and disease proof, you’ll need to crack out the pruners. Here's all you need to know. -
Pruning Acers: The Complete Guide
Acers are compact, low maintenance trees which generally need very little pruning. When they do need a trim, however, there are a few things you need to know in order to keep your tree healthy and looking good.
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