Spring planting What to plant in spring for the best summer displays. Spring is the most consequential moment in the gardening year. The choices made between late February and mid-May set the tone for everything that follows. Soil is finally workable, daylight lengthens by several minutes each day, and root growth races ahead of leaf…
Dahlias for late summer colour A practical UK guide to choosing, planting and growing dahlias for a garden that peaks from August to first frost. Dahlia is the plant that carries a UK garden from late July through to the first hard frost, often into November. While the early summer perennials are going over and…
Spring garden tidy The essential tidy-up that gets your garden ready for the year ahead. The spring tidy is the single most important week in the garden year. Done well, it sets up the next nine months of healthy growth, sharp edges and abundant flowering. Done badly (or, more often, done too early or too…
Planning your garden transformation A practical guide to commissioning, designing and building a garden you’ll love. A garden transformation is a significant project: significant in budget, in disruption, and in the years of enjoyment that follow. The difference between a transformation that delivers and one that disappoints almost always comes down to what happens before…
Summer flowering plants Plants that will give you colour all summer long. A garden that flowers all summer doesn’t happen by accident. It is built from layered planting that succeeds in waves from June to October, mixing perennials with annuals, climbers with shrubs, and structural foliage with flowers. This guide sets out the plants that…
Autumn gardening The key jobs to tackle in your garden before winter arrives. Autumn is the most important season in the garden year. The soil is still warm, autumn rain is reliable, and roots establish faster between September and November than at any other time. The bulbs you plant now flower next April. The hedge…
Winter gardening Keep your garden healthy and interesting through the coldest months. Winter is the underestimated season. UK gardens designed properly for it deliver some of the year’s most beautiful effects: low sun striking frost-rimmed grasses and seedheads, fragrant winter shrubs flowering in cold light, polished evergreen structure standing while everything else is dormant, and…
Autumn bulb planting Why autumn is the most important time of year for next spring’s garden. The bulbs you plant between late September and early December decide what your garden looks like from January through May. Get the timing, depth and selection right and you have continuous spring colour from the first snowdrops to the…
Winter garden prep Get your garden ready for winter and set it up for a strong spring. The work you do between November and February is the most undervalued in the gardening year. Structural pruning is easier and safer with the leaves off. Heavy clay soil is transformed by a single autumn mulch in a…
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