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Garden staycation ideas

This summer, don’t spend your precious holiday time stuck in traffic or standing in airport queues. Step outside to your own garden and have a fantastic stress-free staycation at home. Here’s how to get your garden staycation-ready and some great ideas for holiday fun on your own doorstep.

Top 5 tall grass varieties

These top 5 tall grass varieties will add height, texture, sound and beauty to your garden and will look great growing alone or as part of a bigger planting scheme. Grasses can grow in containers with the right care and thrive for many years. Some of the most beautiful garden schemes are planted with grasses, from prairie planting to formal borders.

Drought-tolerants perennial plants

With summers getting hotter and drier, we need to find ways of gardening more sustainably. That includes finding plants that can cope with dry conditions so that there’s less need to spend precious water resources on watering the garden. We’ve listed six of our favourite drought-tolerant perennials, which prove that tough plants can still be beautiful!

A beginner's guide to landscaping

This beginner’s guide to landscaping will help you to design and landscape your garden just as you want it. The crucial parts of landscaping are knowing how you want to use your garden, what the aspect is, what is already there and what you would like to replace or add in. Let’s take a closer look so you can get started on your dream garden.

What to grow in a raised garden bed?

Decide what to plant in a raised garden bed by considering what you’d love to grow. Most raised beds can be used to produce almost anything you’d like, much like in a ground bed or border. There are advantages to growing in a raised bed, from better drainage, fewer weeds, easier access and much more.

6 top plants for full sun

There are so many beautiful sun-loving plants that it’s hard to know which ones to pick! But hot sunshine can be challenging for plants, so it’s important to choose those that can cope with drought and be prepared to water when necessary. Here are six of the best plants for full sun.