Easter lilies are native to Japan and can be bought as a temporary indoor plant or as bulbs to plant in the garden. Also known as the trumpet lily, because of the shape of its blooms, the Easter lily ...
Sloping gardens may seem challenging, but there are plenty of ways to transform even the steepest inclines into split-level spaces to provide areas for relaxation, entertaining and planting. How you ...
Portuguese squill (Scilla peruviana) is a rarely grown bulbous perennial, bearing star-shaped, purple-blue flowers above rosettes of broad, strap-shaped leaves in early summer. As well as Portuguese ...
We’re all thinking about ways to use less energy around the home right now. After all, it helps to shrink bills and carbon footprints. But while you’ve probably heard a lot about the benefits of ...
Do you have small black flies living in your house plant compost? Or hovering around your house plants? These are fungus gnats, also known as house plant flies and sciarid flies. They're mostly ...
Tomato plants fruit from June until the first frosts, thriving in the warm, light conditions of summer. However, the ripening process slows down as the days become shorter, so fruit that develops from ...
Join Alan Titchmarsh in a new Tea Break Tutorial series as he explores key gardening issues from combatting slugs and snails, to pond care, summer pruning, feeding and dividing plants, deadheading ...