Gardeners' Heaven

When your stack of seed catalogues reaches critical mass and the weather stops you doing anything useful outdoors, it’s time to make out your annual seed order and post it off. Oh, I know you could probably buy what you want from your local garden centre in spring, but there’s a lot to be said [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh When you’ve encouraged birds, bees and butterflies into your garden to entertain you in summer, don’t abandon them in winter. Many creatures who have been displaced from the countryside by a lack of wild facilities have come to see gardens as their new habitat, so you can’t let them down now. A [...]

by Lindsey Gray If you are a new allotment owner you could be forgiven for thinking that your biggest threat was from frost, bindweed or carrotfly, but sadly incidences of attacks on plots and property are on the up. Just enter the words “allotment vandalism” into google, and countless reports of mindless damage spring into [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh While summery displays of pelargoniums, fuchsias and other showy tender perennials are still going strong, do yourself a favour – take a few cuttings before the first frost kills off your original plants. Cuttings are very easy; taken now, they root quickly and you’ll get good results even if you’ve never tried [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh What can we do today? It’s the slogan of many a long summer holiday. But for gardening families – or indeed anyone interested in getting outdoors and enjoying the fresh air and summer flowers – there’s always something interesting going on. It’s just a case of finding it. The Internet makes it [...]

Squash, Zuccini, call them what you will.  Courgettes of all shapes and sizes are in abundance right now and making a healthy wholesome soup from them couldn’t be simpler. Courgettes are a good source of vitamin A, and low in calories. They contain a healthy supply of manganese, folate, and potassium. They’re  a great food [...]

by the Reluctant Gardener There are times when gardening can seem like an altogether thankless task. Blessed as we have been with the sun and rain combo of July, this has just meant that the weeds have gone absolutely crazy and are growing like, well, weeds.  You really need to keep on top of them [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh If you’ve ever wanted to do something that ‘makes a difference’, here’s your chance. By taking part in a huge on-line survey of butterflies, you’ll be helping scientists to take the pulse of nature right across the country. The Big Butterfly Count is a citizen science project that relies on information send [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh To people who don’t have one, a pond sounds like the antidote to gardening. Well, they reason, a pond doesn’t need mowing, watering or digging. However ponds do still need some attention because every summer there’s the problem of weeds. Take blanket weed, for example. It forms strands of green filaments just [...]

Alan Titchmarsh is set to bring his unique horticultural skills to ITV1 for the first time – in a new peak time gardening series entitled Love Your Garden. The nation’s favourite gardener will  travel the country with a team of esteemed experts to find some of Britain’s most beautiful domestic gardens and show viewers how [...]