Visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Visiting professional gardens can be completely inspiring or totally depressing. I go home either wanting to concrete over the lot and take up golf or feeling …
Visiting professional gardens can be completely inspiring or totally depressing. I go home either wanting to concrete over the lot and take up golf or feeling …
The Vegetable seeds to be sown this month are few, and although success depends on the character of the season, it is advisable to risk, on dry soil, a small …
Please find below October’s gardening advice from 1914. Many of the tasks still apply today with October being a busy month for us gardeners. Winter …
For something that is often very small a flower has the ability to provoke intensely strong emotions. Flowers bring joy and also give comfort to those who are …
Suttons pioneered many advertising techniques including the production of catalogues, even when there was a national paper shortage as during WW1. Back in 1840 …
During WW1, recreation for soldiers still at home was an essential part of keeping up moral, Suttons provided Abby Hall to help the troops. Read more on the …
In the early stages of the war there was no shortage of men enlisting and by December 1914 Suttons had 75 men in the Forces. In early 1915 a staff notice …
This garden diary would have been written and printed in 1913. Little did they know that war was just around the corner. Read on for the August advice given to …
In 2014 we no longer sell Dandelions as we doubt there’s much demand however we do supply the other vegetable seeds featured in the below article …
My shed is full of garden tools that I don’t use very often and some that I don’t use at all. Looking through the 1914 Suttons catalogue I saw that …