With the weather so mild, working outside is very pleasant. The dark evenings give me time to look through catalogues and prepare my order for the new season.
Read our comprehensive cultural instructions designed to accompany plants supplied by us including plugs, young plants, bare roots and fruit trees.
If you're looking for winter and spring plants and bulbs for colour or you just want some long-lasting perennials and shrubs or clematis, then now's the time to do it! Pansies, Primroses and Polyanthus come as plug plants and Jumbo plugs. Perennials arrive potted and will quickly establish.
Horticultural questions and answers 14th June 2013 - topics include: Mandevilla not flowering, aphids on apple trees, Oleander toxicity, sweet rocket changing colour, ground cover lilies height, controlling lily beetle, yellowing leaves on sweet peas, how to grow lavender from seed, how to prune…
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This page provides advice on whether you need to prune my patio fruit trees and how to prune your patio fruit trees. Yes, you should prune your patio fruit in exactly the same way as you would prune larger fruit trees.
Shrubs and climbers are great for adding interest and filling gaps in your garden. View our range of garden shrubs and climbing plants.
Looking for instant impact? Here are our suggestions the best shrubs, trees, perennials and evergreen plants to get your garden off to a flying start.
Now is the time to plant deciduous trees and shrubs in your garden. Start preparing the soil for spring - add plenty of well-rotted manure. Read more here€¦
horticultural questions and answers 4th March - topics include: Planting hardy orchids, Wildlife shrubs for a north facing position, Growing Phalenopsis orchids, Moving shrubs and climbers, Grafting tomato plants, Fungal diseases on pansies.
Ground cover plants are useful in the garden for covering bare patches of soil beneath trees or shrubs or for covering steep banks where access is difficult. Their roots also help to stabilise soil on steep slopes. Ground cover plants brighten up otherwise dull areas and will suppress weeds, making…
Planting bulbs, corms and tubers is an easy way to ensure colourful displays in your garden, particularly in spring before the rest of the garden has woken from its winter dormancy. Bulbs can be planted in containers or borders, and look particularly effective when naturalised in grass. There are…
What to sow in January: pelargonium, begonia, carnations, pinks, pansies, sweet peas, celery, herbs, exhibition onions, chit first early potatoes, broad beans€¦
Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership is the largest ex-situ plant conservation project in the world. Thompson and Morgan works in partnership with Kew offering the Kew Collection of Flowers, Kew Kids and the Urban Garden Collection. A royalty is paid to Kew from the sale of every packet in this range.
Learn about the best evergreen shrubs for your garden. TandM's guide reveals a wide variety of the best year-round shrubs for any garden.
What to sow in November: winter salads, windowsill herbs, spring onion, pak choi, broad bean, sweet peas, foxglove 'Camelot', verbascum, lupin, delphinium€¦
Winter bedding plants are biennial or perennial plants which are planted in the autumn, some flowering throughout the winter during milder spells, before putting on a burst of vigorous growth in the spring. We've listed our 10 best winter bedding plants for a welcome splash of colour in your winter…
Learn how to plant your bareroot trees and shrubs with our handy how to video guide.
Horticultural questions and answers 22nd July - Topics include: Controlling Bay Suckers on Bay trees, Treating Peach Leaf Curl disease, Evergreen trees for exposed sites, Mutated Zinnia flowers, Treating Red Spider Mite infestations, Growing Egret Orchids.
Here’s what to plant in August, including flowers, fruits and vegetables. There's still plenty of seeds to sow in August too. If you want to know what to sow and what to grow in August, check out our helpful checklists for advice.
Whether your plants are delivered as bareroots, bulbs or plugs, you can follow our step by step guides to get your plants off to the best possible start.
Even if your garden is small you can still grow all the fruit you would like. Our range of fruit trees caters for large and small gardens alike.
Horticultural questions and answers 13th January 2012 - Topics include: Slowing tomato ripening, Lilies sprouting early, Rabbit friendly plants, Reducing clematis rootballs, Pruning rambling roses, Planting patio fruit trees.
As the summer draws to a close, there are still a few autumn and winter flowering bulbs that are happy to brave the cold and bring a splash of colour.
Horticultural questions and answers 7th January - topics include: planting new beds, Downy Mildew on busy lizzies, planting and growing wisteria, growing autumn planted garlic, pruning autumn fruiting raspberries.
What to sow in October: crepis, hollyhock, oriental poppies, hellebore, wildflowers, winter salad leaves, carrots, windowsill herbs, hardy annuals€¦
Prune climbing and rambling roses. Keep feeding and deadheading hanging baskets to prolong the flowering period. Harvest maincrop potatoes. Read more here€¦
Trees and shrubs from seed, including Bonsai and pruning and trimming advice
Here’s what to plant in September, including flowers, fruits and vegetables. There's still plenty of seeds to sow in September too. If you want to know what vegetables to grow in September, check out our helpful checklists for advice.
Horticultural questions and answers 21st January - topics include: Growing melons, Pruning climbing fuchsias, Growing cut flowers for a constant supply, Wind breaks, Pruning clematis montana, Winter pansy problems
For reduced maintenance in your garden, why not turn to shrubs? They're like the main character in a border, with perennials and bulbs acting as the supporting cast. With structure, impact and reliable year after year colour, it won't take you long to see a return on your investment!
When choosing trees for small gardens it is worth considering just how much space you have and which seasons of interest best suit your planting scheme. Trees can bring all sorts of interest to your garden whether through flowers, foliage, fruit or bark; and can create colour and interest all year…
Tree peonies require little maintenance beyond deadheading. But should your mature shrub need more attention, here’s how to prune it correctly.
Regularly pollarded, catalpa makes a fantastic large shrub at the back of a border. Here’s how to prune your catalpa.
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