Category: General

Growing roses can be easy and rewarding, providing you follow some good advice. Here are some top tips from the Dobies Horticultural team.

The most important consideration when choosing a rose is what you want it to do. Here are a few popular types of roses, described to help you choose the best…

Your garden needn't look bare in winter. Winter interest doesn't just come from bedding plants. Many are useful for their bright foliage, attractive winter stems or fabulous fragrance.

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…

Blueberries are not only delicious, they make beautiful garden plants too! Read our blueberry growing guide to learn how to grow and care for blueberry plants in your garden.

Wintergreens, or evergreen perennials, are a valuable group of perennial plants that add texture, shape and colour to our borders during the dark days of winter, long after the flower-filled…

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…

Harvesting crops is a double-edged endeavour. While we have the wonderful sense of satisfaction that comes with growing our own vegetables, the very act of harvesting it can leave us…

New to growing veg, and not sure where to start? Or simply faced with too much choice? To give you a helping hand, we’ve put together a selection of tried…

Organic gardening and organic growing mean to team up and work alongside natural systems and cycles in your garden. In this scenario, there is very little use of manufactured chemical…