How to Force Indoor Bulbs
To force indoor bulbs is to trick them into flowering early. Forcing it through a false, shortened winter and enjoy indoor spring colour. For Christmas …
Flower Bulbs
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How to Plant Spring Bulbs
The appearance of early spring flowers is when many of us breathe a sigh of relief. The dark days of winter are nearly over. Be they dancing daffodils, pure …
March’s Birth Flower – The Daffodil
The daffodil symbolises rebirth and new beginnings so is unsurprisingly the birth flower of March. Spring is springing and nature is reawakening to another …
Naturalising Bulbs in Grass and Woodland
Naturalising bulbs is one of the best ways of creating natural looking drifts of colour that will simply get better each year. The process is simple, just …
Award Winning Spring Bulbs
With Olympic medals causing much excitement the timing seems right for celebrating award winning spring bulbs. Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) awards are …
Saffron Crocus Growing Guide
Saffron Crocus or Crocus sativus is a hardy crocus that flowers in the autumn and in mid-April becomes dormant once the foliage has died back. And, as the name …
New Varieties of Spring Bulbs
Our 2015 Bulb Catalogue boasts 80-pages of spring bulbs, flower, fruit and vegetable plants. Many new varieties have been added to the range but we’ve also …
Purple Flower Colour Scheme
As with so many keen gardeners I am an avid listener to BBC Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time. Amazingly the programme has been going strong since 1947 …
Snowdrop – the flower of hope
One of the first flowers to appear each year the snowdrop brings hope that spring is just around the corner. Native to large parts of Europe and the Middle …
Cut Flowers from your Garden
Our top hints for how and when to pick your Cut Flowers - At this time of the year our gardens are hopefully so full of colour that some blooms can be spared …