Amateur Gardening

Lecture de 4 min

SUMMER is coming, and for most of us that means colour. With so many options for brilliant flowering plants in the warmer months, we’re spoilt for choice, and it’s tempting to have a little of everything. However, in smaller gardens this can look mes

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Lecture de 21 min

Conrad’s plant choices reflect the naturalistic spaces with sustainability at heart that are key to his design ethos, and offer an immersive and transportive experience. conradbattendesign.co.uk Marian’s selection includes plants that will protect s

Southern Cast Iron

Lecture de 5 min

In its summertime glory, a Southern garden is nothing short of an oasis. Between the towering tomato plants and the crookneck squash with vibrant yellow flowering buds, recipes are born and memories are made. Serving as the backbone of many of our fa

Garden Gate

Lecture de 1 min

Here’s a reliably double coneflower that won’t start sending up single blooms later in the season as some varieties do. That sunshine yellow color is super easy to work in to any color palette. Perennial Blooms: Soft yellow blooms in summer Light:

The Gardener Magazine

Lecture de 1 min

As spring gardens start to bloom and flourish, dry-region gardeners should note the 'irrigate' days for deep watering. It's especially important to regularly irrigate autumn planted flowering bulbs and newly transplanted perennial shrubs. Tackle two

Kitchen Garden

Lecture de 3 min

I used to have a conventional ornamental garden around the house. It never worked though, because I don’t see the point in growing purely ornamental plants and I have too little time. It just became neglected and weedy, and badly needed a revamp. I w

Pip Permaculture Magazine

Lecture de 2 min

by Paul West (Pan Macmillan, 2019) Review by Robyn Rosenfeldt After his stint on River Cottage Australia in the rolling hills of Tilba in South Coast NSW, Paul West moved to the city. His latest book shares his love of growing food and preparing it f

Amateur Gardening

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Keep deadheading perennials as it ‘panics’ the plant into thinking it’s under attack, so it produces more flower buds and you get a long-lasting display. PERENNIALS are the hardworking mainstays of the garden, giving form and structure to borders and

Woman's Weekly Living Series

Lecture de 3 min

The good old-fashioned shrubby mallows or lavatera are useful plants for starting a new garden from scratch, as they will fill a gaping hole, even at the back of a border, in just one season. With speed they produce thousands of hibiscus- or hollyhoc

Amateur Gardening

Lecture de 1 min

Chop chop: There’s no Chelsea flower show this year, but you may still need to use the Chelsea chop. What is it? Find out in next week’s AG! 1 Start hardening off tender and young plants. Leave them outside somewhere sheltered by day and bring them b

Pip Permaculture Magazine

Lecture de 2 min

Do you feel like you’re constantly battling pests in your garden for your fair share of the harvest? Do you wonder what you can possibly do to grow more food? As strange as it may sound, a ‘do-nothing’ approach to pest management might just be what y

Garden Gate

Lecture de 2 min

Every house has a foundation, but every house doesn’t have a planting that really shows it off to its best advantage. Boosting curb appeal adds value to your home—from 4 to 12 percent—and gives you a beautiful view every time you pull in the drive. A

Amateur Gardening

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Top Tip Perennials and bulbs in containers can be planted out when they fade to live on in the garden for years. GIVING a bouquet of flowers is a lovely thing to do, but why not create a longer-lasting pot of joy for someone you love or someone who n

Harrowsmith

Lecture de 1 min

Many of us have specific things we do to wrap up the gardening season. For me, this includes pulling up the last of the vegetables, cleaning up perennial beds, topping up my compost, cleaning off my gardening tools and tidying up before the snow fall

NPR

Lecture de 2 min

If you find yourself hanging around the house this holiday weekend, it might be a good time to catch up on chores around the garden.

The English Garden

Lecture de 2 min

However nice your pots, the plants should be the stars of the show. The general rule is to ensure that the plant mass is always as big or bigger than the container. Most small spaces look better with one large pot with a decent specimen plant, rather

Your Home

Lecture de 1 min

While the odd day may be mild and sunny this month, beware the frosty nights. Garden centres and online retailers are actively selling tender bedding plants but don’t be tempted to invest in any unless you have a frost-free environment, such as a con

Garden Gate

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Blooms Tiny tubular hooded two-lipped yellow or white flowers in repeated whorled clusters along each stem emerging from handsome olive-green foliage in summer to fall Light Full sun to part shade Soil Dry to medium Pests None serious Size 2 to 6

The Gardener Magazine

Lecture de 1 min

These weird and wonderful evergreen perennials, which flower for months on end, originated from the crossing of two Australian species to get a large range of dwarf cultivars (50 – 60cm x 45cm) with big flower power in a wide array of bright colours.

BBC Gardeners' World

Lecture de 3 min

Summer shifts and alters its angle. None of the freshness that June inherits from spring remains, but in its place there is a lushness and richness of colour, texture and sheer volume. Another wave of plants takes over the reins from the early summer

BBC Gardeners' World

Lecture de 2 min

Plants help to reduce extremes of temperature in their surroundings by creating shade and by trapping air among their foliage. Layered plantings of trees, shrubs and perennials mimic natural woodland and moderate the microclimate in a garden. Also, c

The Gardener Magazine

Lecture de 1 min

Although the tiny flowers of calibrachoas resemble those of petunias, the plants are classified into two separate genera in the Solanaceae family. A question that often arises is whether calibrachoas are a perennial or an annual: it is said that they

The English Garden

Lecture de 1 min

Establishing perennial wildflowers in a grass sward can be difficult, especially if you’re working on fertile soil. Try growing your plants from seed and then potting them on into 9cm pots before introducing them into grassland – this will give them

Amateur Gardening

Lecture de 2 min

FIERY foliage, bright berries and vibrant flowers – it’s a powerful trio that sets borders ablaze, helping to make autumn arguably the most visually spectacular season in the garden. But if your plot is shady this might seem difficult to achieve. It

Good Organic Gardening

Lecture de 3 min

A horticulturist, writer and passionate organic gardener, Chloe is co-owner and presenter of the web-based series The Gardenettes and has been a regular presenter on The Garden Gurus. The mother of two little boys, she has a great following of Austra

Garden Gate

Lecture de 1 min

So you didn’t catch the forecast and were surprised by a frost. Whether your plants survive depends on how hard the freeze was and how hardy the plants are. TENDER PLANTS Annual flowers and vegetable crops sustain permanent damage even with a light

Good Organic Gardening

Lecture de 1 min

Spring is the season most gardeners love the most. All that beautiful new growth and flowering makes it feel like the world has awakened, fresh and happy. It’s high spring and everything is growing its socks off. Regular feeding, consistent watering

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Lecture de 1 min

February is one of the hottest months of the year, so it’s essential to keep your plants thoroughly hydrated. A long soak is much better than light sprinkles as it encourages deeper rooting, thus helping to give plants better pest-and drought-resista

Amateur Gardening

Lecture de 2 min

WHILE spring is traditionally seen as the ‘start’ of the gardening year, autumn is just as (if not more) vital. Yet more than half of all adults questioned by the RHS didn’t know this important fact! The world-leading horticultural charity commission

Garden Gate

Lecture de 2 min

It’s time to start dreaming about what to plant this year, and there’s no better way to kick start plans than with this year’s roster of new plants. WHAT’S NEW? There’s lots of drama this year, from head-turning flowers to foliage with “wow!” power.