Cleaning up your garden tools
It’s time to start cleaning up your garden tools so they are just like brand new to start off the new year of gardening again. It is important to keep your tools and other garden accessories clean to ensure they don’t spread any pests or diseases in your garden. It is easy to do and can even fill some [...]
Get into Veganuary: Vegan gardening tips
This month, as part of Veganuary, many of us are trying to adopt a more vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. To help, we’ve put together a few tips on being more vegan in the way we garden. What is Veganuary? Veganuary is the world's largest vegan movement, inspiring people to try vegan for January and throughout the rest of the year. [...]
Get through this blue Monday
Know how to get through this Blue Monday to make sure that you thrive forward into the year without feeling low on the saddest day of the year. The third Monday of January every year is named Blue Monday because it is at the point of the month where the festivities have ended, it’s cold outside and new years [...]
A fresh start for your home and garden
It’s January again, time to kickstart the New Year. Are you ready to begin the New Year with a fresh start for your home and garden? Banish the winter blues with a few feel-good activities that will boost your mood and get your house and garden into shape for the year. 1. Recycle your Christmas tree If you bought [...]
15 Gardening Tips for January
The New Year is here, and it’s time to start thinking about your gardening plans for the year. On a clear, crisp winter’s day, there’s nothing nicer than getting outside for a couple of hours gardening, then warming up again indoors with a hot drink. Here are some of the garden jobs you could start within January. Provided the [...]
Home trends: hanging plants & lights
With our ideas to combine hanging plants and lights, you will be armed with plenty of ways to mix clever lighting with some of the best houseplants you can find. The two together work so well, both highlighting the plant and also the rooms in your house. Not only that but you can make a real statement, be creative [...]
8 x hardy plants for winter
Beat the cold weather with our top 8 hardy plants for winter and continue to have colour and interest with evergreen foliage and flowers in your garden all year. 1. Cyclamen Cyclamen is seen in gardens across the country during the winter months. It can be grown in pots and containers or in the ground and has a variety [...]
Garden plants of the moment
In the middle of winter, it’s hard to imagine flowers blooming, but if you sow annuals indoors now, you’ll have more than enough to fill your borders with colour in summer. For easy annuals to grow from seed this winter, you can’t go far wrong these three: Delphiniums: tall spires of blue, white or pink flowers. A cottage garden [...]