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Paste Button labelSelf 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.
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?
Rowan Berry: A Bird’s Favourite Food?
What’s so special about the berries of the rowan tree? Clever marketing? Addictive compounds? And if a rowan berry is so good, can we try it too?
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.
Guides to grow like a pro
View allGrowing Chillies: UK Beginner's Guide
All you need to grow lots of hot chillies from seeds or plants, through nurturing and harvesting, before inviting your mates round for a game of chilli roulette.
Growing Sweet Potatoes: UK Beginner’s Guide
Thanks to new hardier varieties specially bred to thrive in the UK climate, you can now grow your own sweet potatoes. Here's how.
How To Train a Fruit Tree
Learn how to train your fruit tree with our extensive guide covering cordons, espalier, fan training and other forms!
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
Get your wildlife pond design right and it can be the most important thing you will ever do for the natural environment. Here's how.
Which is the Best Climbing Plant for Your Garden?
Our specialists in Worcestershire grow the largest range of climbers in the UK and they’ve chosen the best options for all your vertical growing needs.
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.
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
We asked our soft fruit growers their top tips for growing raspberries and how to guarantee a successful crop right from the start.
How to Store Plums and Use Up Your Crop
Bumper harvest? Here are our top plum storing tips: freezing, drying, preserving and the best recipes.
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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Paste Button labelVegetable Planting Calendar UK (And When to Harvest)
This handy vegetable planting guide by month will walk you through when to plant vegetables, when to harvest them and what to do when you can’t do either.
Easy Vegetables to Grow: Our Top 10 Picks
Just starting out? Our growers have picked the easiest vegetables to grow for any size of plot. Harvest big with the smallest of effort.
Growing Vegetables in Pots for Beginners
Growing vegetables in pots is great for those without space for a veg patch (or even a garden) and here's how to get started.
Which is the Best Climbing Plant for Your Garden?
Our specialists in Worcestershire grow the largest range of climbers in the UK and they’ve chosen the best options for all your vertical growing needs.
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...
The Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow in the UK
Kick start your orchard with our guide to the easiest fruit trees to grow. Low maintenance, hardy and disease resistant!
The Best Soft Fruit Plants (as Chosen by Our Growers)
If you could only choose one variety of strawberry, which would you pick? We asked the experts - and here are the best fruiting plants.
Planting Fruit Bushes: The Complete Guide
Give your plants the very best start in life (and get more fruit!) with our experts’ guide to planting fruit bushes for bare root and potted plants.
How To Plant a Tree: Potted Trees and Bare Root
A master's guide prepared by the foremost tree grower in the country, with over a million trees planted to date.
How to Choose the Perfect Tree
In this guide, our experts share some pointers on choosing the perfect tree for your garden.
Best Pond Plants: Top 5 Plants to Bring Your Pond to Life
Choose the right plants for a well balanced pond, with some insider tips and our pick of the plants to get your pond buzzing with life in no time!
Planting Pond Plants: A Beginner’s Guide
Watch and learn how to plant up a pond with minimal fuss for maximum impact, bountiful wildlife and clear waters.
Cottage Gardens: Design, Flowers & Layouts
The perfect way to bring countryside charm to even the most urban spaces. Choose plants which will grow to different heights and don’t be afraid to mix it up.
10 Best Plants to Attract Bees to Your Garden
Bee numbers have been in decline for a number of years, but as gardeners we can help by filling our gardens with plants to provide the bees with the pollen...
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.
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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. -
Apple Tree Diseases: Signs, Prevention and Cure
Even the most resilient apple trees can sometimes be affected by disease and if they do, it’s vital to recognise the symptoms so you can act quickly. -
Acer Tree Care: Planting, Feeding and Problem Solving
Acers are really easy to look after. Just follow our growers’ tips and they’ll thrive in any spot, providing you with dazzling colour for many years. -
Fast Growing Hedges
If you need a hedge and you need it yesterday, take a look at the UK’s fastest growing hedging plants. These speedy shrubs can grow by up to a metre per year. -
Planting Apple Trees: The Complete Guide
All you need to know about growing apple trees - planting times, soil types, spacing and propagating. -
The World’s Oldest Trees
Discover the oldest trees that you can still grow in your garden today - because who doesn’t love a piece of living history? -
What Are the Best Fruit Trees to Grow in the UK?
John and Josh grow all of our trees, with over a hundred years of experience in the family. So if you’re looking for the best fruit tree for your garden, who better to ask? -
Can You Eat Crabapples?
While technically edible, crabapples are best not eaten raw. Here are some crabapple recipes and why they're great for wildlife. -
Ginkgo Tree Facts
Survived the dinosaurs AND an atomic bomb? We did a deep dive into Ginkgo's fascinating prehistoric world to get some answers. -
The Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow in the UK
Kick start your orchard with our guide to the easiest fruit trees to grow. Low maintenance, hardy and disease resistant! -
The Survivor Tree: A Symbol of Hope That Lived Through 9/11
A month after the tragedy, some workers who had the depressing task of clearing Ground Zero found that something was left alive in the wreckage - a Callery Pear tree. -
Best Trees for Autumn Colour
Feel the crisp autumn air against your skin and practise the ancient art of forest bathing, taking in the myriad colours that autumn affords.
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