Flowers/Plants

Pruning is a complicated issue. It’s done for a few reasons, so it’s best to decide your motives, so that you get it right.

Be the envy of your neighbours and adorn your home with burgeoning baskets of flowers!

Most plants will grow without plant food, however they will not thrive or achieve their full potential.

If you’re new to gardening, one of the first things to do before you start planting is to establish what sort of soil you have. 

When something is growing in the wrong place it can be moved out of season to a new, more suitable spot in the garden. 

When planting a new border, choose a variety of plants to add colour and year-round interest. 

An easy guide to how to plant pots and containers. 

If the weather is kind during January or February, this is a good time to prepare your beds and borders, ready for planting in the spring.

When your seedlings have two or more sets of leaves and are large enough to handle, it’s time to give them more room. 

Caring for houseplants is fairly simple as long as you remember some key principles.

A traditional cottage garden favourite.

Busy Lizzies provide a mass of vibrant colour, with many varieties available.

Cosmos offer a burst of vibrant and pastel colour and benefit from a long flowering period and distinctive feathery foliage.  

Traditional cottage garden plants, Delphiniums bear tall spikes of large blue, pink, white or purple flowers.

Foxgloves are cottage garden favourites that are very easy to grow from seed. 

Geraniums are a classic gardener’s favourite and are easy to grow from seed.

Perfect for containers and baskets for summer colour.

Beautiful flowers with a wild and rustic feel.

A must in the cottage garden, stately spikes of Lupins provide colour in early summer and are truly stunning. 

A true gardener’s favourite, Marigolds traditionally provide sunshine colour in shades of yellow, gold and orange.

Nasturtiums are great for ground cover or used as climbers.

Pansies are beautiful little additions to containers, hanging baskets and borders.

Sunflowers are so easy to grow and provide striking colour and enjoyment for children and adults alike.  There are so many colours to choose from such as the classic ‘Sunflower Giant Single’ to the red ‘Moulin Rouge.’

Grown as hardy biennials, Wallflowers flower from March to May and are seen as a real harbinger of spring and are available in a wide variety of colours.

Weeds in flower beds compete with your flowers and plants for vital sunlight, food and water. 

Those who love to garden know that we don’t only want the outside of our homes to look beautiful.

Alyssum is a hardy annual smothered in tiny blooms, much loved by insects.

By the very nature of the way they grow, Bonsai trees have a limited source of nutrients.

Cacti plants have exacting requirements in terms of the compost in which they grow.

The most exciting thing a gardener can achieve is to grow flowers from seed.

Create new trees, plants and shrubs in your garden by taking hardwood cuttings from existing specimens in the autumn.

Once your seedlings have filled the modules or pots with roots, they will need some more room to continue to grow strong and healthy.

Orchids are hugely desirable indoor plants with exotic blooms and a vast array of colours and flower types to choose from.

The showy red poinsettia is perhaps the most common houseplant at Christmas, most of us can’t resist this cheery festive addition.

Containerised roses can be planted at any time of the year, as long as the soil is not waterlogged, frozen or suffering from drought.

Sweet peas are arguably one of the most beautiful and sweet smellling flowers of all.