Caring for Your Yard

Feeding Plants The Natural Way Did you know there's a whole garden center right by your back door? No, this isn't a shopping-deprived gardener's fantasy brought on by too long in lockdown. All over your house and...

Climate Proof Your Garden With so many of us rediscovering the immediate benefits of gardening during the coronavirus lockdown, it's easy to overlook the long-term climate change crisis. But there are simple steps we can all...

Pollinators  Our pollinating insects are struggling. Creatures such as bees, moths, butterflies, lacewings, and hoverflies are vital for helping our flowers set seed, fruit, and reproduce. Two of the most significant factors in their decline are...

Forsythia Gold Standard, With its boughs laden with brilliant yellow blooms, forsythia earns its place as a spring garden stalwart. Subtle is not an epithet anyone ever applied to forsythia, the well-known shrub that turns Colman’s Mustard...

Get Your Garden In Shape With winter over, it’s time to get your garden in shape for the year ahead. Whatever time you have to spare. Encouragement – that’s what we need at this time...

Butterfly Bush Pruning Butterfly Bush, A Controversial plant surrounded by many questions regarding aggressive re-seeding issues, finally breeders managed to develop sterile, near-sterile cultivars. Those are known as "summer lilac," and further on, we will discuss...

Mowers The traditional mower market is undergoing a quiet revolution, with innovations such as battery-operated models turning mowing into a neighbor-friendly pursuit. Do you have a lawn that’s bigger than a tennis court? Are you fed...

Lawn Problem Solving Get your grass into great shape with our guide to choosing the right products and tools. Improving the health of your lawn is the key to improving its looks. Start by identifying any...

Organic Lawns Success There is no doubt about it; cultivating an organic lawn is one of the most significant challenges faced by any gardener. After all, lawns entirely devoted to grass do not exist in nature...

The Secrets of Good Soil I have believed that ‘improving’ the soil was the holy grail of gardening for most of my life. Lick it into shape, and your garden will inevitably become better too. I...