BlogFlockCongratulations to passionate gardener and expert ecologist Nadine, who beat 20 fellow finalists and then a people’s vote ‘top three’ to be our ‘Best of the Best’ for her stand-out garden, now spanning three adjoining plots and a shared space wildflower meadow at Fir Tree Allotments, Wallingford.
The competition was…
Nosy neighbours or unsightly views spoiling your garden? These trees, climbers and shrubs are the perfect solution, providing privacy and interest throughout the year.
A go-to choice for…
Gardening is one of the best ways to stay active, spend time outdoors and keep your garden looking its best, but it can also take a toll on your body. Hours spent kneeling, digging, lifting compost bags and bending over flower beds can all place extra pressure on joints, especially…
Well-stocked bird feeders help to supplement birds’ food when it's in short supply. Plus, if you're regularly topping up your bird feeder, the same birds will continue to return as they learn your garden is a good source of food.
Specialist bird cakes, seeds and food like mealworms and flaked…
A restaurant-quality pizza can be hard to replicate in your own kitchen, let alone garden. Authentic pizza usually needs a large, purpose-built, wood-fired oven that’s beyond most budgets, but enter the domestic pizza…
It’s a classic British summertime scene: the sun's just peeked out from behind the clouds, the temperature's barely in double digits, but all along the street there’s the delicious smell of…
Many of us have favourite plants that aren’t celebrated or grown as widely as they deserve to be. The gardeners in our July 2026 Facebook shout-out listed a huge range of plants from heucheras to carnivorous plants to ferns, hellebores and cosmos, but these five plants stood out above all…
Lawn mowers – if you've got a garden, chances are you need one, even if you don't really like gardening at all. So it's a big market, with a lot of different products in different categories available, from basic hand-push mowers
Earlier this year, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds produced new guidance on supplementary bird feeding based on research that shows the highly contagious disease, trichomonosis, can be passed from bird to bird at garden feeders. Their advice is: "Feed Seasonally. Feed Safely".
Feeding seasonally means only offering…
The one thing career changers have in common is a desire to do something more fulfilling. Consultancy Careershifters, which published the State of Career Change Report 2026 in April, found that 41 per cent of 11,567 career changers in its survey were motivated by poor work-life balance and wanted…