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Paste Button labelSelf Pollinating Apple Trees? Your Guide to Apple Pollination Groups
Grafted Vegetable Plants: Are They Worth It?
Rowan Berry: A Bird’s Favourite Food?
The Best Privacy Plants to Screen Your Neighbours
Guides to grow like a pro
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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In the spotlight
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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Fast Growing Climbing Plants: Our Top 15
How quickly do climbing plants actually grow? I asked our grower for her recommendations - and for some hard and fast numbers. -
Rare Apple Varieties: UK’s Best Heritage Apples
Forget supermarket varieties and join the rare apple boom by discovering long forgotten gems that you can grow at home. -
The Top 10 Trees with Interesting Bark
When you choose a tree with beautifully coloured or textured bark, you’ll have a garden with true four season appeal. Which one will you choose? -
Self Pollinating Apple Trees? Your Guide to Apple Pollination Groups
Discover the basics of apple pollination, how it affects your choice of tree (spoiler: not as much as you’d think) and how to make it work to your advantage. -
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. -
Grafted Vegetable Plants: Are They Worth It?
Grafted vegetable plants are growing in popularity with UK gardeners. But what are they, and is it worth buying them? -
The Best Privacy Plants to Screen Your Neighbours
Whichever side of the hot tub fence you’re on, privacy is a must. Here are the plants that can help. -
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! -
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. -
The Best Grapes to Grow in UK Gardens
We asked our growers for their recommendations - pick any of these and you’ll be laughing. While plucking fresh grapes straight from the vine.
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