Category: gardening with children

National Gardening Week celebrates the greatest aspects of gardening and raises awareness annually. National Gardening Week 2023 will soon be in full swing – and we’re all about encouraging Britain’s…

Encouraging your children to garden is not always easy but is a great way to introduce them to nature and for them to interact and learn about the environment around…

Celebrating National Children’s Gardening Week, 29th May-6th June 2021 It’s National Children’s Gardening Week from 29th May to 6th June 2021, and to celebrate, Dobies is pleased to introduce the…

Gardeners seeking inspiration and ideas for their home plot will assuredly enter a gateway to gardening when visiting RHS Shows. The RHS (Royal Horticultural Society)  is Britain’s gardening charity, keeping…

Fortunate indeed are those of us who are able to visit some of the major Gardening Shows in the UK. Going to these events offers the keen gardener so much…

I am writing this post just one day after the one I posted yesterday, on Sunday 26th May. Only because I am taking a holiday which for me is unusual…

My topic for this week is self-explanatory – and a subject important in its significance. For if we don’t introduce children to ‘how’ to garden when they are young we…

This post comes to you live from Cheshire – at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park. Having experienced and enjoyed the show here last year, I wanted to view it…

After a more than unusually warm end to March, with accompanying drought, is there anywhere that is not now soggy and waterlogged? And it’s likely to remain so, and cold…

With the mild weather we’ve had this January, I should have been out in the garden, titivating the potager and beginning yet another reclamation project of areas that escaped me…