We're often asked about the best soil or compost to grow plants in, and with so much on offer, it's not surprising that most...

What is The Best Compost to Buy?

This week I have tips on a bit of pruning, what to do with herbs and how to ripen shallots before storing them.

What to Do in the Garden This Week - July 3rd

May is THE big month for planting and sowing. Tender bedding plants, dahlias, begonias, pond plants all get the green light...

What to Do in the Garden This May 

Remember to sow thinly using fresh compost and vary the seed covering as instructed on the seed packet. Water only with clean...

What to Do in the Garden This March

Getting a plant to grow is, to me, the best feeling in the world. This can get a little tricky in the low light of the winter...

How to Take Root Cuttings

During the barren depths of winter and the harsh early weeks of spring, few plants dare to grow, and even fewer dare to...

How to Grow and Care for Hellebores in the Garden

Lady's Mantle

Chinese Anemone

Japanese Anemone 'Honorine Jobert'

New England Aster 'Herbstschnee'

Masterwort

Hardy Geranium

Hellebores

Hosta

Red Hot Poker

Ice Plant

Golden rod

Quince

Herringbone Cotoneaster

Weeping Forsythia

Escallonia

Silk-Tassel Bush

Hydrangea anomala ssp. petiolaris

Bachelor's Buttons

Hall's Japanese Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle

Firethorn

Rose

Bergenia Elephant's Ears

Spindle 'Silver Queen'

Spindle 'Emerald 'N' Gold'

Canada Ted

Rose Of Sharon

Juniper

Bistort

Greater Periwinkle

Lesser Periwinkle

Clay

Sticky, clay soil that is either wet or rock hard? These plant will happily provide colour, texture and structure.

Arrowwood 'Dawn'

Astilbe

Chinese Juniper 'Pyramidalis'

Culver's Root 'Pink Glow'

Downy Japanese Maple 'Aconitifolium'

Avens

Golden Rod 'Golden Baby'

Plantain Lily 'Krossa Regal'

Japanese Mahonia

Purple Loosestrife

Old Glory Rose

Red Chokeberry

Red Bistort 'Rosea'

Weigela

Whitebeam

Clay Soil Plants - Top 20

Bidi-bidi

Adenostoma

Agrimony

Alchemilla

Serviceberries

Chokeberry

Goat's beard

Cherry

Cotoneaster

Mountain avens

Duchesnea

Eriobotrya

Pearl bush

False Spiraea

Meadowsweet

Strawberry

Indian physic

Hawthorn

Holodiscus

Jet Bead

Lyonothamnus

Apple

Medlar

Neillia

Osoberry

Photinia

Ninebark

Cinquefoil

Pear

Indian hawthorn

Raspberry Family

Puccoon

Sarcopoterium

Sibbaldiopsis

Rowan tree

Spiraea

Stephanandra

Barren strawberry

Rosaceae Family

Spikenard

Paw paw

Trumpet creeper

Californian Lilac

Bittersweet

Glory flower

Daphne

Russian Vine

Lilac

Wisteria

Shinyleaf Yellowhorn

Yellow wood

Shrubs and Climbers to Propagate by Root Cuttings

These spring flowering shrubs are great additions, providing pollinators with habitat, shelter and food.

Darwin's Barberry

Barberry

Cornelian Cherry

Tibetan Cotoneaster

Pagoda Bush

Heaths

Hebe

Mahonia

Lily-of-the-valley shrub

Cherry Laurel

Blackcurrant

Redcurrant

Flowering Currant

Willow

Japanese Skimmia

Stachyurus

Blueberry

Spring Flowering Garden Shrubs

Growing these shrubs will give you a glorious spring display of flowers.

Alder Buckthorn

Tasmanian laurel

Azara

Camellia

Mexican Orange Blossom

Winter hazel

Spreading Cotoneaster

Crown Of Thorns

Deutzia

Rosy Dipelta

Forsythia

Fragrant Winterhazel

Golden Shrimp Plant

Gorse

Heather 'Springwood White'

Japanese Snowball 'Pink Beauty'

Japan Globeflower

Manuka

Mediterranean Spurge

Myrtle

Natal Bottlebrush

Mahonia aquifolium

Burkwood Osmanthus

Flowering almond

Rhododendron

Rocket Pincushion

May Flower

Spurge

Japanese Snowball 'Mariesii'

Witch Alder

Spring Flowering Shrubs

Chaenomeles, 2014

Chaenomeles 'Whitice' (5547659803)

Chaenomeles-tibetica-flower

Pflanze 02052006

Chaenomeles japonica Frucht

Aphididae

Aphids

Erwinia amylovora

Fireblight

Cuttings

Suckers

Seed

RHS hardiness

Chaenomeles × superba 'Orange Trail' 9cm x3

Attractive flowers