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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
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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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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. -
Natural Christmas Decorations: Crafts from the Garden
Decorating with plants in winter is fun, cheap, environmentally friendly and a tradition going back to pre-Christmas times. Here's how to get started. -
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. -
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? -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Support for Climbing Plants: How to Train Climbers
Every climbing plant needs support - a wall, fence, trellis or pergola - but they all climb in different ways, so which is the best method for training each type? -
Planting Climbers: A Beginner’s Guide
You want to plant your new climbers so it hits the heights ASAP. Luckily we have a direct line to Mollie, one of the UK’s finest growers, to show you how.
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