Long-lasting blooms for Spring until Autumn
September 2, 2025 11:12 amWhat can be more eye-catching than a beautiful splash of colour when entering a town, park, or home garden? You…
What can be more eye-catching than a beautiful splash of colour when entering a town, park, or home garden? You…
Water-smart gardeners would group their plants together based on their watering needs. So, let’s do that with indoor plants with…
Pots of citrus and herbs in terracotta pots against a sapphire blue sea backdrop is an iconic Mediterranean-style look. But…
Join Freddie to find out what’s new and trending in the world of bedding plants. These Flowering Favourites are available…
A beginner gardener who cannot decide which flowering shrub to buy, won’t regret choosing one of the Callistemon (Bottlebrush) hybrids.…
Help your Roses to Keep their Cool • Hot nights bother the roses more than the heat during the day.…
Fuchsia Electric Lights is the result of new breeding, which has produced a Fuchsia that thrives in full sun. It…
Too much kindness – rather than neglect – might kill off these nearly indestructible houseplants! If you have children, there will…
Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine Trachelospermum Jasminoides is an exceptional cultivar that is not grown for its flowers but rather for…
In the days when we quickly had to order a few flowering shrubs to fill the instant colour aisles of…
Carpet Geraniums True Geraniums or Crane’s Bills – from the Greek word geranos, a crane, owing to its fruit which…
Planting up a beautiful pavement garden is usually the last item on a gardener’s agenda, yet such a garden can…
Blue Rain Perovskias Perovskias are often underestimated in terms of the great value that they can add to the garden.…
Ophiopogon, or Mondo Grasses have thin, curved, ribbon-like leaves and grow in dense tussocks. They are evergreen, exceptionally hardy, produce…
Orange Jasmine The dark green glossy leaves make the Orange Jasmine shrub attractive even when not in flower, but the…
The Metarungia Longistrobus needs little attention, provided that the plants are well mulched and fed with an organic fertiliser twice…
Falling in love three or more times a day (and not getting into trouble) is a distinct possibility when you…
River Star The beautiful river star is a shining light amongst other greenery with its silvery foliage. Its size is…
Yellow Daisy Bush, Honey Daisy Euryops Pectinatus is an indigenous yellow daisy bush that will give you immense joy with…
Japanese Euonymus, Dwarf Japanese Spindle, ‘Gold Dust’, ‘Aureus’ Euonymus Japonicus ‘Microphyllus’ is a rounded, very compact shrub with small, glossy…
Day lilies are no longer seen as simple, ordinary garden plants. While they remain popular for being hardy and easy…
There are a number of tough waterwise characters that thrive in containers and love being out in the midday sun.…
Weeping Anthericum Type: Groundcover, 50cm.Form: Like tufts of wispy grass.Flowers: Little white ‘stars’ arranged along erect stalks, from September to…
Bronze Form, Bronze New Zealand Hair Sedge, Bronze Perfection There are many varieties to choose from in the genus Carex. Some are stately ornamental grasses…
