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Quintessentially English, fragrant and sweet, strawberries are delicious eaten fresh from the plant, still warm from the summer sun. Strawberry plants are easy to grow and low-maintenance, so suitable for…

Planting fruit trees and growing your own crops is incredibly rewarding! Whether you’re looking to plant an orchard or seeking petite plants for your patio pots, here’s how to get…

Offering year-round structure and interest, slow-growing Bay (Laurus nobilis) is a great choice for adding an evergreen welcome to your home and makes a fabulous focal point for the balcony,…

Building Resilience in our Gardens: Looking Backwards to See the Way Forward Guest blog: in an extract from her new book, The Climate Change Garden, author Kim Stoddart explains how learning…

Native to Asia, Europe and North America azaleas are widely admired as beautiful spring flowering shrubs. So admired that spring-time azalea festivals are held in many countries with some lasting…

Our brand new Spring 2015 catalogue is now available, bursting with a wide range of flower and vegetable plants plus bulbs and some really useful seasonal garden equipment. If you…

Here at Dobies of Devon we have customers who are new to gardening together with those who have many years of skill and experience. We really enjoy receiving letters and…

We have good news about our vegetable seed that we’d like to share with all our valued customers. News that reinforces the decision you made in choosing Dobies as the supplier…

It’s surprising what will trigger a garden memory, or where an early love of gardening acquired in childhood may lead. For me, it was helping my grandmother deadhead annuals during…

As my four-year stint writing this blog for Dobies of Devon comes towards its end, I approach the future with a sense of adventure. Harvest in (well most of it)…