What to plant now for a colourful summer garden
If your borders still look a bit bare and the pots on the patio are more compost than colour, you’re…
Category Seasonal Gardening
Monthly and seasonal gardening advice for UK readers, including what to plant, prune, protect and check throughout the year.
The patio pot check to make before a cold spring night
Before a cold spring night, the most useful thing you can do for patio pots is not to rush out…
What to check after heavy rain in a garden
After a night of heavy rain, borders can look flattened, pots are sitting in saucers of water and the lawn…
How to water container flowers properly during a heatwave
During a heatwave, container flowers can go from perky to drooping in a single hot afternoon. If the top of…
What to protect first before a cold May night
The plants that suffer most on a cold May night are the tender, sappy ones that have not yet hardened…
Why potted plants dry out so quickly in warm weather
The shock often comes on the first hot spell: compost that was fine yesterday is bone dry today, flowers are…
Top 8 flowers to plant in May for colour through summer
May is the moment when borders still look a bit bare, pots are half-planted, and you’re wondering what will actually…
The cold night check every gardener should make this week
Before the first really cold night bites, there’s one simple check that can save a lot of plants: looking for…