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I have a new, bigger greenhouse. I have seedlings growing in a heated (min 14c) and very warm when sunny, garden room. When will it be safe to put them out in the unheated, but very sunny greenhouse (most of them will stay in the greenhouse

. Pretty cottage. Hi Lizzie, I'm sticking to Wisteria as I mentioned originally.  It's just that I noticed the name above the door - presumably there's a fig somewhere in the garden.  Agree - lovely cottage - would suit my style of gardening down to a tee

What is your soil type and what aspect/area are you thinking of planting up? My garden faces south and the plants will face the east. Sorry don't know the soil type or how to find out, I'm a novice garden If you live in a cottage or want a cottage

without fail and they suit my cottage style garden to a T, thank you birds! I love Honesty, despite its scentlessness, that is why it's my Flower of the Month http://tinyurl.com/3sf579g These seed pods are lovely, and children at my local primary school

Big news from the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch survey results just out: the long-tailed tit has made it, for the first time in the survey's 30-year history, into the top 10. I hardly ever saw these gregarious little birds until I moved to East Dulwich

Hi I have grown hollyhocks for the first time this year and had such a good show from them that I would like some advice on how I winter them?  They look so attractive in my cottage garden but I am wondering if I have to lift them over winter or cut

Happy New Year to you too, James and my resolution is the same as it has been for as many years as I can remember for just that - to make it is happy as I can and that goes for the garden too. I mean to enjoy it rain or shine but a bit more shine

I have seen this plant a few times in cottage gardens.  It is tall (about 3ft) with square stems and mauve flowers.  Does anyone know what it is please? I would have said that it looks like the very popular Verbena bonariensis. And verbena does have

Today, I visited Touchwood garden in Clyne Valley Cottages, Killay, Swansea. It holds the nation's only two National Collections of aquilegia. I was charmed by the sheer eccentricity of the place and thought it might be worth passing

Hi I hope someone can help with my problem.  I have just bought a 200 year old house, called Myrtle Cottage.  Its had this name for while (carved on the gatepost) and known as such in local history records going back to the mid 1840s at least