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Take a tour with Rosy as she looks at propagation during winter here at Hardy's.

Last month we gave you a few Design Tips for Small Gardens, this month we've decided to focus on just one of those tips - "Choosing plants that flower repeatedly". When space is limited every plant...

Plant name changes for 2024

The 2023 show season has come to an end, but what a year it has been! Here's a summary of our achievements

Vermiculite is widely used by professional and recreational gardeners. Our concerns over vermiculite's lack of sustainability, environmental and health impacts have led us to reconsider our use

Rosy looks at some of the perennials which can be used as cut flowers.

Rob Hardy has quietly been encouraging new plants people into the world of flower shows and discusses some of the people who have taken up the challenge.

Rosy looks back at the best selling perennials of 2023.

Here at Hardy’s we’re always looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint, promote sustainability and be more planet friendly. Since January 2023, we’ve made a few changes to the way we do things

Boy it's been HOT ! We humans and our plants have all been suffering in this heat so we thought that now is the perfect time to share some of our top tips to help you and your plants survive

In order to make understanding and identifying these plants easier, taxonomists have begun to separate the genus Aster into separate groups that are more closely related.

Find out where we'll be in 2023

Keep flowers in your garden until October with Rosy's favourite long flowering summer perennials

In her latest video Rosy look at 7 perennials that are easy to grow in shade.

As we celebrated our pearl anniversary, that is our 30th year, exhibiting at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, we were delighted to be awarded another gold medal in the Floral Marquee.

We supplied two gold medal winning gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023...

In the village of Laverstoke, between Whitchurch and Overton, is a gem of a garden which has a special place in the hearts of Rob and Rosy Hardy.

With its potential for compaction and the heaviness of working with clay soils, it is imperative to use the correct tools for the job in hand.

As we learn more about the inter-connectedness of our environment and look for ways to mitigate our impact on nature, there has been a growing movement towards the no dig method of gardening.

The nursery is teeming with bees and butterflies but the population on the meadow is different to those seen on the nursery.