As we gardeners begin to busy ourselves with seed catalogues and bedding plans, it's easy enough to get over-excited and blow...

How To Save Money on Plants

The global health emergency saw plans to stage Malvern’s spring spectacular on 5-9 May scrapped, while for the first time in...

Updates on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Malvern Spring Festival 2021

This week, I'm focusing on sweet and conventional potatoes, how to get things right for lime-hating plants, transplanting...

What to Do in the Garden This Week - October 2nd

2020 has helped us learn to appreciate the beautiful places closer to home.

4 Gorgeous Gardens You Should Visit in the West Midlands

It's time to gather ideas and inspiration from others this week. The UK is full of stunning gardens that are now open, so it's...

What to Do in the Garden This Week - August 28th 

This week is the beginning of summer pruning time for fruit growers. I've also got some thoughts on pesky bindweed control...

What to Do in the Garden This Week - July 10th

Your garden should be full of growth and blooms this month, and I have a few tips to keep the show going. Hopefully, in July...

What to Do in the Garden This July 

An almost frost-free spring has lead to promising fruit crops, so I have a few tips on getting the best out of them. I'm also...

What to Do in the Garden This Week - June 11th

Air layering is a method of propagation where you encourage plants to develop roots while they are still attached to the...

Propagating by Air Layering

In the garden this month, it's time to plant one of our favourites, Dahlias! Other garden tasks for April include potting...

What to Do In the Garden This April

George Forrest (1873–1932) was a robust man who loved the great outdoors, both perfect attributes for a career as a plant hunter.

George Forrest - The 'Indiana Jones' of Plant Collecting 

At this time of year, you’ll see neat little domes of dark foliage topped with candy-coloured flowers appearing in florists...

Caring for Indoor Azaleas

Winter is the perfect time of year to delve into this more technical side of gardening and to put things right if needed. And...

What Is Soil pH and Why Is It Important? 

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Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Plants

Your dog will eat pretty much anything given a chance. Your slippers, the newspaper, their own tail if they could catch it.

10 Common Plants Poisonous to Dogs 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that global warming in excess of 1.5°C above pre-industrial...

Candide Cuttings: Natural Solution, Recyclable Plant Pots and Leonardslee Gardens

The spectacular sight of a Welsh or Scottish mountainside awash in rich swathes of purple blooms may seem like a dream, but...

The not-so-fab five: Outlaw #3: Rhododendron ponticum

Azalea

Australian honeysuckle

Camellia

Chinese Holly

Heaths

Cape jasmine

Glory Bush

Spider flower

Heather

Holly

Saucer Magnolia

Bull Bay

Leucadendron

Pincushion

Lily

Banana shrub

Manuka

Photinia glabra

Lily-of-the-valley shrub

Protea

Red Mimetes

Rhododendron

Spiraea

Acid | Soil Specific

Copper leaf

Aloe

Boston Daisy

Spotted Laurel

Barleria

Mountain ebony

Barberry

Blue Potato Bush

Butterfly Bush

Bottlebrush

Carissa

Lawson's Cypress

Cistus × purpureus 'Brilliancy'

Coleonema

Mirror plant

Cigar Flower

Mediterranean Cypress

Escallonia

Forest Bell Bush

Golden Bells

Fuchsia

Hebe

Heliotrope

Hibiscus

Hydrangea

Indian Hawthorn

Purple Trailing Lantana

Mahonia

Micky Mouse Bush

Murraya

Myrtle

Nanten

Mock Orange

Blue Plumbago

Poinsettia

Ribbon Bush

Rose

Rosemary

Spindle Tree

Cape Honeysuckle

Viburnum

Yesterday-Today-And-Tomorrow

Care-Free Shrubs

Red Ginger

Solomon's Seal

Columbine

Aristea

Arum Lily

Asparagus

Assegai

Hard fern

Red Alder

Button Snakewort

Bellflower

Cape Chestnut

Chinese Rice-Paper Plant

Christmas Rose

Clematis

Glory flower

Clivia

Common Alder

Common Silver Birch

Creeping Jenny

Creeping Lilyturf

Tree fern

Orchid

Egyptian Stars

Common Elder

Fairy Bell

Falling Stars

False Castor Oil Plant

Flame Tree

Globe Flower

Hiba

Horse Chestnut

Ifafa Lily

Indian Bean Tree

Indian Shot

Japanese Cedar

Japanese Maple

Japonica

Kahili Ginger Lily

Laburnum watereri

Lilac

Sweet Gum

Oriental Plane

Southern River Bell

Monkshood

Mussaenda

Lilyturf

Madake

Hosta

Alpine totara

Poplar Tree

Primrose

Table fern

Foxglove

Red Horsechestnut

River Lily

Sacred Bamboo

Saxifrage

Shining Mandevilla

Snowflake

Spider Plant

Spiderwort

Silver Inch Plant

Spleenwort

Swamp Cypress

Swiss Cheese Plant

Sword Fern

Chinaberry Tree

Arborvitae

Tulip Tree

Periwinkle

Wax Mallow

Weigela floribunda

Bear's Breeches

Willow

Damp | Soil Specific

For larger gardens, these flowering shrubs are perfect additions to provide habitat and food for pollinators. 