Stepping out into our garden one morning this week was different. Not least because we had…
Gardening help
How to guides and other tips, tricks and help gardening.
How to grow Monarda didyma
Monarda didyma ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ can be seen flowering in our garden in the above photo (2015)…
How to make a micro wildlife pond in a pot
When we open our garden for charity on the National Garden Scheme one thing people always…
11 Chelsea plant combinations you can try at home
Like my 15 Sensational Plantings to Recreate from Chelsea article last year I’m hoping to breakdown…
Robot lawn mowers, battery operated gardening tools and other tech at the Garden Press Event
I attended the Garden Press Event for the first time this year and it was a…
12 plants that add COLOUR-POW to your garden in winter
If your garden doesn’t look something like the above right now, it’s time to act! Plan…
Collecting seeds from Leonotis nepetifolia
Over the last few years I’ve been growing Leonotis nepetifolia (thanks to Jonathan Gregson for correcting…
How to make an Aeonium arboreum branch (Part Two)
A year ago I experimented with nipping out the growing point of my Aeonium ‘Zwartkop‘ to…
DAHLIAGEDDON
It’s mid-November and some of our Dahlias in the garden are still flowering, just. This follows…
Propagating Hippeastrum from offset bulbs
Hippeastrum (incorrectly called Amarylis by shops for some reason) are amazing indoor plants that flower in…
Gardening jobs to do in October: harvesting, bulb planting, propagation by dividing, cutting and sowing
If like me, you may have been coasting along on a post-summer ‘put your feet up’.…
Dividing a Pilea peperomioides
How to divide Pilea peperomioides to give to your friends and family while keeping the Pilea…
Box tree caterpillar plague in Clapham, London
It’s usually around this time of year, just as our good ship The Garden puts its…
15 sensational plant combinations you can try at home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017
One of my bugbears around Chelsea time are the naysayers proclaiming the gardens are unrealistic and…
Dry winter and spring, what does it mean for summer?
Note: since the day I published this the heavens opened dumping over 4cm of water in…
Allotment: weed suppressant membrane – beating weeds organically
Month 13: my allotment has expanded a bit this year as I’ve taken on some unused…
How to make an Aeonium arboreum branch (part one)
Last year I ordered a small Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’ from an independent nursery off of eBay.…
My Tiny Indoor Garden by Lia Leendertz
Earlier in the year Lia Leendertz and Mark Diacono popped over to talk about and photograph…
Does peat free compost work?
Between 2015- 2016 I put peat free compost to the ultimate test, I only used peat…
Dividing a fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
I want more ferns for our fern wall and some of our ferns are ripe for dividing. After…
Dahlia experiment: cultivars put to the test!
In late 2013 I discovered Dahlias. As unbelievable as that might sound to gardeners who have grown…
Planting spring bulbs – tulips, snowdrops, fritillaria and alliums
This year I’m planting my spring bulbs for the spring White Garden in three stages:
Pot’s Growing On: cuttings to overwinter
Today I took softwood cuttings of a few plants in order to overwinter them more easily…
Avoid damping off during indoor propagation
If I can offer any tips for indoor propagation on a small scale, it’s do a small…
Vine weevil menace returns to Clapham!
They’re back! Those little notch mark bites on your otherwise lovely leaves. Yep, it must be…
Dividing a Zamioculcas zamiifolia (ZZ plant)
I’ve had a Zamioculcas zamiifolia for some years now. In the last year, I found the…
Pests and diseases (vine weevil, slugs, snails and rust)
For every positive in the garden this summer there has been a pest or a disease…