This is the peak time to enjoy your garden, with heat-loving plants including pelargoniums, cannas and lantanas (right) flowering freely with little water.
As the days get shorter and the sun lower in the sky, plants need less and less water. By mid-September, their water needs are very low. This will be a great
High summer is usually a time of sitting back and enjoying the garden: long, warm, pleasant days and plants growing strongly. But this year we seem to have
Snipping off spent flowers, stalks and all, is simple and rewarding; dahlias, roses, tender container plants and herbaceous perennials that have finished,
Adam Frost has become a familiar sight on Gardeners’ World, sauntering through swards, watering plants and generally getting his hands dirty in the soil. If
Fading flowers make beds, borders and pots unattractive, and removing these by deadheading is part of the summer garden cycle to get the best from your flowers.
Peak summer is just around the corner, but now is the time to think about autumn. Lettuces get mouldy in autumn, but other salads – chicories including
Sales of herbs are rising, driven by trends in health-conscious gardening, interest in global cuisines and the popularity of meal kits that often come with
An up-and-down spring – with frosts followed closely by heatwaves, all the while with very little rain in many regions – has left plants distressed as summer
Though it might be hard to remember now that we are being bathed in sunshine, untimely late frosts in many regions this spring – even if only ground frosts –
May is an exciting time in the garden, as flowers suddenly surge in height and spring flowers such as lilacs, irises and peonies fill the garden with colour.
The trouble with getting older is that it sneaks up on you. One day everything feels as it always has; the next, you notice you are a little less steady, a
May is when the vegetable garden is readied for summer, with all your cropping plans finally set in motion with the promise of abundant, tasty produce in a
Gardening is generally a joy, but losses can be a disheartening – albeit happily temporary – setback. After winter, plants may fail to sprout, carried away by
