Gardening advice and monthly tasks & tips from our team of resident gardening experts…

Wonderful Reasons to Garden with Your Children
May 9th, 2024 | Categories
Gardening is a wonderful pastime for adults providing a whole range of benefits. From lowering stress and blood pressure to increasing our overall wellbeing both mentally and physically. The great news: it’s just as fantastic for children. Perhaps even more beneficial throughout their developing years when in today’s world technology often takes centre stage in […]
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Why Gardening Reduces our Stress & Anxiety
May 7th, 2024 | Categories
In the hustle and bustle and pressures of modern life, with persistent digital screens and concrete jungles, it’s no wonder general stress and anxiety levels have increased significantly among us all. In fact, according to a 2024 “Burnout Report” by Mental Health UK, 9 in 10 adults surveyed “experiencing high or extreme stress” in the […]
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How to Take a Cutting from a Plant – Step by Step Guide
April 2nd, 2024 | Categories
Taking cuttings from a plant is a fantastic method to propagate new plants and expand your garden. Learning to do this allows you to produce several new plants from a single, established one. This is a good way of preserving tender plants such as Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Geraniums, Osteospermums and Verbena, for example if you’re worried […]
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Planting Ideas to Create a Garden for the Senses
March 21st, 2024 | Categories
While all gardens appeal to our senses in some way, sensory stimulation in gardening, or ‘sensory gardens’ are gardens designed to rouse some or all of our five senses through scent, sight, sound, taste, and touch. Plants are, of course, at the heart and soul of sensory gardening. Each plant introduced is chosen for its […]
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Gardening is Good Exercise so Let’s Do More
March 15th, 2024 | Categories
Gardening is not just a joyful hobby; it’s also an activity that can significantly contribute to your overall health and fitness. If you have green fingers, you might not even realise that those hours spent planting, weeding, and pruning are doing your body a world of good. It’s exercise! But just how is gardening beneficial […]
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