Rented garden ideas – create a beautiful garden in pots!
If you have a rented garden or can’t afford to change your landscaping, then you can create a real garden in pots. When you move, you can take the pots…
If you have a rented garden or can’t afford to change your landscaping, then you can create a real garden in pots. When you move, you can take the pots…
How to group pots to create a beautiful ‘border’ – you can switch it round, take it with you and have maximum colour every season
A winter container garden display can give the garden such a lift. You can enjoy winter pots in the front garden every time you come home. And just a few…
Gardener, photographer and author Claus Dalby has a display of dahlias in pots that look like a glorious herbaceous border. There must be several hundred pots massed together, with both…
Did you know that planting winter pots is a little different from planting summer pots? And that’s not just because the plants need to be winter-hardy. So I went to…
As I was photographing Diane and Robbie Perry’s garden in Kent, I admired the way they use garden planters to add punctuation and colour. They’ve used garden pots in five…
Garden designer Jane Beedle’s top winter window box tips, including how to choose window box plants and how to plant a window box in winter.
Easy-care evergreen pots to add interest and structure to your garden all year round. 10+ plant choices for evergreen trees, shrubs and grasses for pots.
‘Give it a root prune every two or three years.’ I was given this advice when I bought my beloved topiary spiral. It is the most significant plant in…
It can be difficult to find the right indoor garden pot for your newly fashionable house plant. The chain stores, such as B&Q and Ikea, do a good line in…
In the 1970s house plants were as essential as having a coffee mug, a Habitat plate and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon album. None of us even thought…
The terrarium is back in fashion. You probably last saw one in the 1970s, gathering dust in Great-aunt Agatha’s musty Victorian interior. Now you might expect to find them in…
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Don’t dig up dahlias for winter! What to do instead….
I don’t dig up dahlias to store them at the end of the summer. And before you dig your dahlias up, it’s important to know the pros and cons. You…
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