Our Gardening Tips

Follow our 'How To Guide' for long flowering spring colour, no matter how small your garden.

We often get asked to help customers with garden design, maintenance and gardening services. As a small team we are unable to provide these services, but we’ve pulled together a guide which can help.

There are so many good reasons to get out and get planting in the autumn.

Now is the time to start our preparations for the year ahead too. Once Spring has sprung we'll be racing to catch up, so getting a little ahead is never a bad choice.

Plants for the front of the border and path edges.

If you choose the right subtle orange or yellow this colour can lift the other plants in your garden and make them far more interesting to look at.

One of the design tricks which is very effective and easy to use, is to make small changes to take the look of your plants from the ordinary to extraordinary.

Rosy walks you through how she takes cuttings from Dahlias

In her latest video Rosy demonstrates how to cut back Melittis, Nepeta, Salvias and Geraniums

The following is a list of plants are included in Rosy’s videos in which she recommends plants for Winter interest. The links to the videos are at the bottom of the page.

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

Perennials offer long seasonal interest. Most can remain outside all year round and many are not as susceptible to the cold as annuals.....

Rosy outlines her thoughts on trends for gardens in 2022.

As the weather turns colder Rosy considers different arrangements for keeping your plants warm and healthy over winter.

Well-structured soils are usually crumbly and friable and have plenty of pore space to allow water and air movement to ensure healthy root development. In fact, and perhaps surprising, 50% of healthy.

These are plants that have a natural summer dormancy, not an induced one due to environmental factors. They are still true herbaceous perennials..