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Cutting back ornamental grasses

Published on 12 February 2018

Eventually, even these most lovely of winter performers start to look a little battered. So cut them back hard now, before the new green shoots show so there is no risk of cutting them back as well.

Plant of the Week: Hyacinth

Published on 9 February 2018

It won’t be long till they burst into flower, so now is the perfect opportunity to pop into the garden centre and pick up a bowl full of ready-grown bulbs just on the point of flowering.

Snowdrop month

Published on 9 February 2018

February is the best time to visit gardens which specialise in snowdrops, and many hold snowdrop days so you can marvel at hundreds of different varieties.

Grow your own asparagus

Published on 7 February 2018

Asparagus is one of the best-value crops you can grow. It’s really expensive in the shops – yet if you grow your own it costs pennies, and you get to feast each spring on as much as you can eat!

There are snowdrops and crocuses galore to prove spring is just around the corner, and you can risk sowing the first hardy vegetables undercover in a heated propagator to kick-start the veg growing year.

Plant of the Week: Yucca

Published on 2 February 2018

Their evergreen, sword-shaped leaves spear up out of the border, sometimes edged strikingly in silver or gold; Yucca filamentosa has long, delicate threads curling from the edges to soften their spiky, architectural shape.

Keep up with the winter weeding

Published on 31 January 2018

Stay indoors now and by spring they’ll have a head start on the season, setting seed before you notice they’re there and spreading into a real headache by summer.

Year of the Marigold

Published on 29 January 2018

The announcement follows last year’s successful ‘Year of the Zinnia’ which culminated in 20 varieties being awarded the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society after a year of trials testing their reliability and performance in the garden.

Plant of the Week: Erica (heather)

Published on 26 January 2018

You can have this wild beauty in your own garden with this star performer for borders and containers.

Plant of the Week: Ficus Benjamina

Published on 19 January 2018

The weeping fig, Ficus Benjamina, is among the most stately and elegant of houseplants.

Sow earlier by using a heated propagator

Published on 17 January 2018

Transform your seed sowing with a heated propagator and you can sow earlier and expand your range to include frost-tender summer bedding and delicious greenhouse crops.

Shining Hellebores

Published on 15 January 2018

Give hellebores the chance to shine by going round now snipping off last year’s old, tatty foliage right down at the base to expose the emerging flower buds. Use sharp secateurs and be really careful as it’s all too easy to snip off the flower buds themselves by mistake!

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