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Protecting plants from cold weather

By Adam Pasco on 29/10/2012 16:43:00

the end of the 2012 growing season. The reason I’m flustered is that there’s so much still to do, and the most urgent job is to bring any tender plants that are still outside under cover before they’re damaged.I have a lovely selection of tender succulents


Big plants

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 28/07/2009 14:12:42

I love big plants. Not big pants. Plants.Not so much enormous shrubs or majestic trees (although they have their place of course), but herbaceous plants that go from nothing to gigantic in the space of a few weeks. I love their energy


Pond plants

By Kate Bradbury on 26/02/2010 16:23:36

Be Plant Wise, a government campaign to halt the spread of non-native, invasive pond plant species in our ponds, streams and rivers, was launched this week.The five key culprits listed on the Be Plant Wise website are: floating pennywort


Companion plants

By Adam Pasco on 25/05/2009 11:04:56

things, growing new plants, and of course experience problems that you can learn from. After all, no two years are alike are they? When I first started getting interested in gardening organically I read a great deal about companion planting, and always


Carnivorous plants

By Pippa Greenwood on 06/11/2008 17:22:31

I'm the proud owner of two whopping great carnivorous plants. One was a present to my son from his granddad, the other is a rescue plant (much like our rescue cat!).Right now my greenhouse is looking decidedly miserable. My pepper and tomato plants


Planting snowdrops

By Pippa Greenwood on 09/04/2009 16:37:20

Should snowdrops be planted in spring in-the-green (after the flowers have died down but when their foliage is still green and lush) or as dry bulbs in autumn? It's a question that divides opinion in even the most prestigious horticultural circles


Plant support

By Adam Pasco on 13/04/2009 10:14:47

I always have a dilemma in April, choosing the right plant supports for my tall border perennials, delphiniums in particular. Last year I used lots of home-grown sticks leftover from pruning my silver birch. Pushed firmly into the soil around clumps


Bedding plants

By Adam Pasco on 01/11/2010 07:04:11

More gardeners choose pansies and violas as their favourite bedding plant than any other flower.These brightly coloured flowers with their cheerful faces brave the very worst of our weather to put on displays during winter and spring, and voting


Plant supports

By Adam Pasco on 31/05/2010 16:18:34

Choosing the very best plant supports for perennial plants is always a challenge. Firstly you've got to decide which type of plant support to go for. Should it be something robust made of metal, or something more natural, or even homemade?Then you


Plants for bees

By Kate Bradbury on 30/04/2010 14:42:05

of bumblebee rely on chalk grassland, hay meadows and other disappearing habitats that our gardens cannot provide for them.The problem for bees is that their favourite food plants are often considered to be 'weeds'. They don't go for highly bred double


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