Gardening: Help butterflies thrive with a seasonal to-do list

GET gardening for butterflies is the message from this year's Wild About Gardens campaign, organised by the RHS and The Wildlife Trusts.

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Gardening: How to make your garden dog-friendly

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How to stop weeds with effective ground cover in your garden

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How to stop weeds with effective ground cover in your garden

14 Mar, 2020

AS SPRING begins, it may be a good time to think about how to reduce the weeding you have to do in future years – and good ground cover is essential if you want to lessen the backbreaking work of constant weeding.

Alan Titchmarsh: 'Keep getting out there and keep getting mucky'

07 Mar, 2020

SELF-CONFESSED romantic and gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh has combined his horticultural passion with his love of words in Marigolds, Myrtle And Moles, his first book of poetry aimed at the green-fingered.

The Casual Gardener: There's no call to be a pruning prude this spring

John Manley 07 Mar, 2020

GARDENING in springtime is all about deadlines; countless tasks that need to be carried out before times runs out.

The Casual Gardener: For peat's sake, stop destroying bogs just to grow pretty plants

John Manley 29 Feb, 2020

IT ALL kicked off one morning at the end of January when Bunny Guinness, one of the regular ‘expert' contributors to BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time sought to defend the use of peat as a horticultural growing medium.

Daffodil displays to visit this spring – and how to grow them

29 Feb, 2020

A HOST of golden daffodils will be in bloom this spring in gardens nationwide celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth whose most famous poem, I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud – is also known as Daffodils.

Gardening: Are we harming garden wildlife with plastics, toxic food and bad design?

22 Feb, 2020

WORLD Wildlife Day is on the horizon, meaning gardeners will be thinking about how to attract more creatures to their plot through nectar-rich plants, bird food and good garden practices.

Casual Gardener: The simple art of growing Jerusalem artichokes

John Manley 22 Feb, 2020

ONE of the advantages of growing your own fruit and vegetables is that you can experiment and try to cultivate something that you'll not ordinarily find on the supermarket shelves – well certainly not on the shelves of any supermarket near me.

Going nuts about the garden: how to grow your own...

15 Feb, 2020

ARE you nuts for processed, salty snacks? Well, if you want to go down a healthier route, why not consider growing your own peanut plant? You can grow your own peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) – also known as monkey nuts – out of doors, according to specialist breeder and grower Lubera (lubera.

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