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What to grow in a glasshouse

Pontederia cordata AGM – pickerel weed

Mint, cloches and lawn-edges – Grow-How tips for late June

Dressing salad, cucumber soup and blackbirds

10 different ways to thank our garden wildlife

Salvia verticillata ‘Hannay’s Blue’

Geranium joy – Grow-how tips for June

Bees, battered courgette flowers and sparrow boxes

Summer pots, three ways

Rosa ‘Dortmund’ AGM

The heat is on! Grow-how tips for early June

Elderflower cordial, new potatoes and wild roses

Our all-time Chelsea choices

Rosa pimpinellifolia ‘Dunwich Rose’

Grow-how tips for mid May

Taking risks, rhubarb recipes and yellow rattle

Dark arts, edible flowers and moorhens

Celebrating what’s hot and what’s not

Cercis siliquastrum – Judas tree

Spuds, squalls and squirrels

May mayhem! Grow-how tips for late spring

Reaping some early rewards #DigYourOwnaForCorona

Yearning for cottage garden comfort?

Asphodeline lutea

Vegetables growing, birds brooding #DigYourOwnaForCorona

The wonderful world of ….weeding! – GrowHow tips for April

Want to grow your own food?

It’s all growing on! #DigYourOwnaForCorona

Eight gardening gaffes to avoid

Polystichum setiferum ‘Divisilobum Wollaston’

Let’s keep growing! #DigYourOwnaForCorona

14. It’s good to have a laugh! #DigYourOwnaForCorona

13. Show your veg plot a bit of love #DigYourOwnaForCorona

It’s all kicking off in the garden: Grow-How tips for early April

12. Herb Heaven #DigYourOwnaForCorona

11.What about some fabulous fruit? #DigYourOwnaForCorona

10. Today it’s chard, spinach and kale – #DigYourOwnaForCorona

9. Winter Veg: Why you need a PLAN – #DigYourOwnaForCorona

8. Courgettes and Squashes #DigYourOwnaForCorona

7. Salad Crops #DigYourOwnaForCorona

6. You say tomatoes, I say terrific! #DigYourOwnaForCorona

Six spring plants to lift our spirits

Peltaria agliacea – (shieldwort, garlic cress)

5. Dwarf runner beans, peas and carrots #DigYourOwnaForCorona

4. Know your onions! #DigYourOwnaForCorona

3. Broad Beans #DigYourOwnaForCorona

2. Getting some spuds going – #DigYourOwnaForCorona

1. How to Create Your Veg Bed #DigYourOwnaForCorona

Therapy for Troubled Times – Grow How Tips for Late March

My top 10 conservatory plants

Welcome to: DigYourOwnaForCorona

Sowing seeds: mollycoddling versus tough love

Eight great new products for 2020

Corydalis solida subsp. solida ‘Beth Evans’

Seed-sowing, staking and sacred bamboo – Grow-How Tips for March

A gardening year that flies by too quickly

What are your boundaries?

Leucojum aestivum ‘Gravetye Giant’ AGM

Slug-proof plants and winter jasmine: Grow-How tips for late February

How ambitious are your garden plans?

Iris reticulata ‘Harmony’

Feeding Early Bees and Prepping Veg Beds – Growhow Tips for February

Tricks to formalise your garden

Euphorbia stygiana – Azores spurge

Sorting Spades and Pruning Late Clematis – Grow-How Tips for early February

Six gardening trends for 2020

Geranium palmatum AGM – Canary Island Geranium

Sowing seeds and gorgeous scents… Grow-How Tips for January

Why it’s time to plant a tree

Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’ – Winter flowering cherry

Out with the old….Grow-How Tips for January

Growbags’ Christmas quiz

Malus domestica ‘Sturmer Pippin’

Feeding the birds and going green indoors – Christmas GrowHow Tips

Game-changing garden gifts

Salix alba var. vitellina ‘Britzensis’

Quiz answers

Scent and flowers for the festive season – Grow-How Tips for December

10 best plants to give at Christmas

Rosa × odorata ‘Bengal Crimson’ AGM

Tucking in the Tulips – Grow-How Tips for November

Growbags on tour

Darmera peltata AGM – Umbrella plant

Winter pots – Growhow tips for early November

Not getting our posts?

10 evergreens to rescue your garden

Serratula tinctoria var. seoanei

Chains of Cheerful Chillies! GrowHow tips for October

A History of Gardening in 50 Objects by George Drower

10 tasks to prepare for winter

Calamagrostis brachytricha AGM – Korean feather reed grass

Preparing for the Chilly Season – Grow-How Tips for Early October

Tulips v trilliums- what’s your Brexit choice?

Erigeron karvinskianus AGM – Mexican fleabane

Broadwoodside, Gifford, East Lothian

Create something new? Grow-How Tips for September

How do you solve a problem like September?

Succisa pratensis – Devil’s Bit Scabious

It’s time for a mini makeover – Grow How tips for early September

Hedge trimming anyone?

Pileostegia viburnoides

Thinking ahead – Grow How Tips for Late August

10 plants to set light to August borders.

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora ‘Coleton Fishacre’

Free seeds anyone? Grow-How Tips for August

Best scents of summer

Lythrum salicaria ‘Zigeunerblut’ – Purple loosestrife ‘Gypsy blood’

Enough is enough, time to cut back – Grow-how tips

10 Summer Stalwarts

Digitalis ferruginea AGM – ‘Rusty foxglove’

Grow-How Tips for July

Trending now: a tropical garden make-over

Clematis viticella ‘Étoile Violette’ AGM

Grow How Tips for early July

Do you need a greenhouse?

Allium ‘Spider’

Grow-How Tips for June

The Growbags’ 10 best roses

Rosa ‘Souvenir du Docteur Jamain’ Climbing

Grow-How Tips for Early June

Chelsea Flower Show – art or science?

Geranium sylvaticum ‘Album’ AGM. White, wood cranesbill

Growbags Chelsea Choice #5 – David Austin Roses

Growbags’ Chelsea Choice #4 Heyland and Whittle

Growbags’ Chelsea Choice #3 – Binny Plants

Growbags’ Chelsea Choice #2 – Twool

Growbags’ Chelsea Choice #1 – Hartley Botanic

Grow-How Tips for Mid-May

Taking on a new garden – the dos and don’ts

Thermopsis lanceolata

Grow-How Tips for May

Going native to help our butterflies

Exochorda x macrantha ‘The Bride’

Grow-How Tips for April

Cherry blossom: What do you think?

Bellevalia romana

Grow-How Tips for Early April

So which primrose should you choose?

Primula ‘Dark Rosaleen’

Honing your honeysuckle – tips for spring gardening

Ten veg worth growing

Iris lazica

Loads of gardening tips for a mad, mad March!

How to have cheap romance in your garden

Ficaria verna ‘Brazen Hussy’

Perking up plants in pots and other jobs: Grow-How tips for very early spring

8 weeds to worry about, and what to do about them

Helleborus argutifolius AGM – Syn.Helleborus corsicus Helleborus lividus subsp. corsicus

Getting to grips with your clematis – Grow-How Tips for February

Dawyck Botanic Garden

Trees to try for winter cheer

Dendrobium Berry Oda

Grow-How Tips for Early February

What’s hot and what’s not in your garden 2019

Crocus tommasinianus

And the gardening year gets underway! Grow-how tips

10 garden projects to tackle before Easter

Jewellery that springs from the sea

Parrotia persica AGM – Persian Ironwood

How to keep your festive houseplants happy! Tips for early January

Growbags’ tips on what not to wear

Nandina domestica

Lilies, tree-shaping and tool-sharpening – tips for December

The 12 gardening tips of Christmas

Euphorbia x pasteurii ‘John Phillips’ AGM

Hardwood cuttings and hellebores – Grow-how Tips For December

Growbags’ must-have Christmas present

Polypoduim cambricum ‘Richard Kayse’ AGM

Check out Chive for a plant lover’s gift

Grow-How Tips for November

10 reasons to be cheerful in November

Chrysanthemum ‘Innocence’ AGM

Grow-How Tips for Early November

Halloween horrors

Eriobotrya japonica AGM

Grow-How Tips for October

Buy a pink plant for Breast Cancer!

Diascia personata

Grow-How Tips for Early October

Growbags shout Hip Hoorah!

Plectranthus argentatus AGM

Lindisfarne Castle Gardens, Northumberland

Grow-How Tips for September

Ageing gracefully the Growbag way

Sanguisorba ‘Pink Brushes’

Grow-How Tips for Early September

The Growbags September pick-me-ups

Hylotelephium ‘Red Cauli’ A.G.M.

Grow-How Tips for Late August

Growbags blueprint to save the world

Carex testacea – New Zealand hair sedge

Alnwick Castle Gardens, Northumberland

Grow-How Tips for Mid-August

Top tips for going potty

Eryngium planum

Grow-How Tips for High Summer

Who needs rain when you’ve got soapwort?

Itea ilicifolia AGM

Grow-How Tips for July

The Growbags’ Guide to the World Cup

Aeonium arboreum

Grow-How tips for early July

Gifts that grow on you – or not!

Penstemon ‘Dark Towers’

Grow-How Tips for June

Gardens, tea and above all, CAKE!

Rosa ‘Sally Holmes’ A.G.M.

Grow-How Tips for Early June

Three cheers for Chelsea

Clematis ‘Black Tea’

Grow-How Tips for Late May

Kiss me Hardy Annuals!

Paeonia mlokosewitschii A.G.M.

Grow-How Tips for Spring

Branklyn Garden, Perth

Our top 10 plants in Spring

Omphalodes cappadodica ‘Cherry Ingram’ AGM Blue-Eyed Betty

Grow-How Tips for Late April

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi – I want a magnolia

On the hunt for magnolias

Epimedium warleyense

Grow-How Tips for Early April

Going potty at the Plant Fair

Prunus incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’ AGM

Still time to go on Wisley’s Winter Walk

Grow-How Tips for March

Sod it – where are those seeds?

Cardamine quinquefolia

Gardening Jobs for early March

Growbags batten down the hatches

It has to be hellebores!

Laura’s garden dung has arrived for 2018!

Gardening Jobs for Very Early Spring

Laura’s light bulb moment

Teucrium fruticans

Gardening jobs for February

Growbags – easily seduced on dark winter nights

Chaenomeles x superba ‘Pink Lady’ AGM

Braving the elements reaps sweet smell of success

Arum italicum subsp. italicum ‘Marmoratum’ AGM syn. Arum italicum ‘Pictum’

To plant, perchance to dream

Daphne laureola

Looking back and so looking forward!

Chimonanthus praecox

All the Growbags want for Christmas……

Echeveria rosea

The Growbags…..total bird-brains

Malus hupehensis AGM

Autumn – time for subtlety or time for BLING!

Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’

Want to prepare for winter, but not sure how?

Ageratina ligustrina AGM

Rare plants – a common Growbag weakness

Symphyotrichum ericoides ‘Deep Danziger’ and other asters

How Autumnal are your bloomers?

Vitis vinifera ‘Brant’

Growbags advice: Invest in a hedge fund

Gomphostigma virgatum

The Growbags grass each other up

Artemisia lactiflora ‘Elfenbein’

Parham House Gardens

Social climbers or rampant pests?

Solanum laxum ‘Creche du Pape’

Colour – symphony or screech?

Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Erika’

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Dahlias: too dire to dare?

Cool foliage and egg shells

The Growbags’ War of the Roses

Geranium pratense ‘Southease Celestial’

Gardening Heroes – it takes all types

Hemerocallis citrina x ochroleuca

Keep calm and allium on!

Clematis ‘Belle of Woking’

The Growbags award their own Chelsea Golds

Heuchera ‘Brown Finch’

Will they check out if not hardened off?

Abutilon vitifolium ‘Veronica Tennant’

Garden centre or nursery? A country divided

Viola labradorica: Syn Viola riviniana – Purpurea Group

Coronilla valentina subsp.glauca ‘Citrina’

Clematis can be a fickle friend

New garden features – be careful what you wish for!

Ribes sanguineum ‘White Icicle’ AGM

Bergenia emeiensis

Hellebores: a tale of lost innocence?

Pulmonaria rubra

Iris unguicularis – the Algerian iris

Battle lines are drawn over snowdrops

Salix fargesii

King John’s Lodge – East Sussex

Willows: Infuriating fad or firm favourites?

Anisodontea ‘El Royo’

January: less hygge, more hedgecutters

Clematis cirrhosa

Althaea cannabina

Larch Cottage Nurseries – Penrith

Highdown Garden – Worthing

Why our gardens will be SO much better in 2017!

Erysimum ‘Parrish’s’

What should Santa put in a gardener’s stocking?

When keeping a diary can be dangerous

Berries, hips and leaves

Salvia leucantha

Overwintering tender perennials – is it worth the bother?

Dahlia merckii

Bulb lasagne – not everyone’s favourite dish

Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Herbstzauber’

Grammar Schools: where a gardening education starts

Vitex agnus-castus var. latifolia

September signals sisterly division

Still time for stand-out climbers to shine in September

Koelreuteria paniculata – Golden Rain Tree

August – Elaine goes on film to explain the Chelsea Chop

How old is too old, to plant a tree?

Sphaeralcea incana ‘Sourup’

Blooming weddings!

Rosa bonica

Loving and laughing in our best British gardens

Listen up, don’t buy a house in France

Scotland is a gardener’s paradise – it’s a matter of flax

Jack russells dusted; chickens briefed: the garden is open!

Come on folks – get busy with the unicorn dung

Racy wives, silver medal sorrows and that Binny Plant stand…..

Was Prosecco the undoing of Princess Kate at Chelsea?

Peonies pile on the pleasure of early summer

Euphorbias: the Dave or Boris dilemma

We’re slugging it out with garden pests

It starts with the wonder of seeds……

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