How to plant hanging baskets
Make hanging baskets the dazzling centrepiece of your garden display. Here’s our guide to help you get the best from your hanging baskets this season.
It doesn’t matter if you’re growing flower beds, borders, bulbs or perennials – here at Dobies we have great tips and advice on what to choose, how and where to plant, and how to get the most from your blooms.
Make hanging baskets the dazzling centrepiece of your garden display. Here’s our guide to help you get the best from your hanging baskets this season.
Pruning a lavender plant prolongs its life, maintains an attractive shape and ensures plenty of flowers the following year. Here’s how to prune lavender.
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Plug plants have been professionally raised in a greenhouse to ensure a good root system and excellent plant health. Here's how to get the best from them.
Lilies add an exotic touch to your garden and many varieties have a powerful, sweet fragrance that’s fantastic on summer evenings. What’s more, they’re very easy to grow and suit…
With their large, showy flowers, hydrangea plants are a superb way to bring late-summer colour into your garden. And these stately, elegant shrubs are not only prized for their blooms;…
Clematis is easy to grow if you follow a few simple steps. Read on for advice about how to choose, plant, feed and prune clematis plants for the best show…
On balmy summer evenings, there’s nothing better than a night-scented plant to perfume the warm, still air. The flowers are usually pale so they remain visible at dusk, making them…
With our increasingly dry summers and hosepipe bans, it’s more important than ever to choose drought tolerant plants which can tolerate our challenging conditions. Here are some of our recommendations…
Highly fragrant & well-loved by gardeners, sweet peas are a staple in most flower gardens & cottage garden planting schemes. Easy to grow, and available in a variety of colours,…