Gardening
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Winter-proof your garden
Hardy plants that thrive whatever the weather are returning to popularity, after the extremes of cold, drought and wet of the last couple of years saw more temperamental garden plants turning up their toes. Read more
How Does Your Garden Grow…
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years – Unknown Read more
RHS, Richard Bloom
Herbal Aromas! From cooking to remedies, it’s all about herbs!
A stroll around the herb garden at Rosemoor during the summer, takes you on an aromatic journey through nature, as the warm, sunny days enhance the essential oils from the plants that linger through the air. Read more
Time to assess, plan and action
Putting in feature plants is a superb way to give borders real pizzazz, using shapely and stunning ‘prima donnas’ to take centre stage. Read more
Cottage Garden Wildlife
While ‘die-back’ fungal infection meant the sad loss of a beautiful ash tree, two of its most regular users, the greater spotted woodpeckers and treecreepers, thankfully continue to regard our garden as their territory. Read more
Something to ponder
As we head towards spring, a time of regeneration and new life, many of us will be looking forward to the familiar sights of frogspawn and tadpoles in local ponds. Read more
Snowdrop Festival at The Garden House
Each year from mid-January to early March, The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum, described as one of the finest gardens in Britain, becomes a mecca for snowdrop lovers from all over the UK, and often from around the world. Read more
Spring Flower Show
At RHS Garden Rosemoor, come and view the exquisite displays of top-quality blooms from competitors all over the South West and beyond, focusing on daffodils, camellias, early magnolias and rhododendrons. Read more
Tom Marshall
On the trail of snails
There are around 120 species of snail in the UK. Here we take a slow and steady look at one familiar kind: the garden snail. Read more