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Frances Tophill’s guide to April pruning
April in the garden is a time of fresh beauty and feverish activity for us gardeners. Seeds are sown regularly, and once germinated, they are pricked out and potted on. Nights are often still cold...
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A day in Alan’s garden in spring
I’m an early riser. Always have been. I set the alarm if I have to catch a train or a plane but I almost always wake up before it goes off. Between 6.30 and 7.30am I am up and at ’em. But quietly....
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Monthly Q&A – March 2024
As part of your Premium access, you can send your gardening questions to our horticultural experts each month. They will then answer a selection of the questions they receive, and share the advice at...
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Monty’s gardening jobs for April
By April, the outdoor sowing season has started in earnest, with many hardy annuals, vegetables and salad crops ready to be sown once the soil has warmed up. Temperatures can still be chilly however,...
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Wildlife watch: Ashy mining bee
The ashy mining bee is a solitary, ground-nesting bee, roughly the size of a honeybee. Females are blue-black with two ash-grey hair bands on the thorax, and ash-grey hairs on the face. Males are...
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Free flower seeds 2024 – April
April growing with Cel Cel Roberts’ polytunnel is packed full of trays of seedlings, waiting to be planted out It’s becoming difficult to find space on the benches in my polytunnel for any more trays...
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Free veg seeds 2024 – April
April growing with Rachel Rachel Bull has planted out her rocket seedlings and is getting ready for more seed sowing I count down to April with the same excitement my children have heading towards...
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Plants for a Purpose: climbing plants
There is truly a climber for every situation: climbers that will happily clamber along a shady wall or fence, or wind up tripods to add height to a sunny border; climbers that will scramble...
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The women who made gardening what it is today – and why they don’t get more...
Ask a person in the street to name a famous gardener and you’ll probably hear Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh or Geoff Hamilton. Ask the same person to name a famous historic gardener and you’ll likely...
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Inside King Charles’ garden at Highgrove
Highgrove and its gardens have been the private sanctuary of His Majesty King Charles for over 40 years. He has transformed the once rather neglected grounds into a garden that reflects his passions...
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Monthly Q&A April 2024
As part of your Premium access, you can send your gardening questions to our horticultural experts each month. They will then answer a selection of the questions they receive, and share the advice at...
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Frances Tophill’s guide to May pruning
People often talk about the ‘May gap’, when spring plants begin to fade and the burgeoning summer growth is yet to appear. Though if, like me, you allow a little room for some wildness, May can be one...
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Monty’s gardening jobs for May
May is a busy month in the garden, with seeds to sow, young plants to harden off and plant out, and spring shrubs to prune – not to mention leaving enough time to enjoy the warmer, longer days. The...
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Free veg seeds 2024 – May
May growing with Rachel Rachel is growing all of the free seeds given to subscribers, including the tomato seeds May. The cold memories of winter replaced by the promise of summer evenings pottering...
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Wildlife watch: Orange-tip butterfly
The orange-tip is one of the first butterflies of the year to emerge and can be found nectaring on spring flowers such as bluebells and cuckoo flower. The male is white with orange wing tips while the...
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Is growing veg among ornamentals pretty or impractical?
Do you remember that garden Bunny Guinness designed at Chelsea Flower Show in 2011? You know, the one with the beautiful hazel-hurdle-raised-beds burgeoning with edibles and ornamentals. Well, if you...
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Free flower seeds 2024 – May
May growing with Cel Cel is making the most of warmer weather and sowing her free seeds The spring season feels as though it’s moving on so quickly this year doesn’t it? With warmer temperatures in...
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Seven things you need to know about growing tomatoes
Isn’t it funny how even people who don’t like gardening grow tomatoes? What is it about them? Maybe tomato growing is one of those practices passed down from grandparents that just sticks, evoking...
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10 plants to get the Bridgerton look in your garden
With the third series of the hit drama about to start and The Bridgerton Garden coming to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show later this month, now is the ideal time to invest in some new plants to bring a...
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Frances Tophill’s guide to June pruning
June has some of the finest weather we experience in the UK. The nights are at their shortest, which means that those in the most northerly parts of the country may never get full darkness, and even...
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