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Maximise your space: a guide to vertical and small-space gardening

June 19, 2025
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How to plant hanging baskets

June 18, 2025
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Bulb planting depth guide

June 18, 2025
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Maximise your space: a guide to vertical and small-space gardening
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Maximise your space: a guide to vertical and small-space gardening
How to plant hanging baskets
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How to plant hanging baskets
How to prune roses
roses
How to prune roses
Bulb planting depth guide
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Bulb planting depth guide
Sweet Pea Care & Maintenance
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Sweet Pea Care & Maintenance
Tomato ‘Veranda Red’ – Plant Care & Growing Advice
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Tomato ‘Veranda Red’ – Plant Care & Growing Advice
Growing Herbs in Pots: Top Tips for a Container Herb Garden
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Growing Herbs in Pots: Top Tips for a Container Herb Garden
Grow Your Own Delicious Berries and Currants with Dobies
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Grow Your Own Delicious Berries and Currants with Dobies
Water saving tips for your garden – infographic
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Water saving tips for your garden – infographic
How to grow lilies
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How to grow lilies
How to grow hydrangeas
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Grow With Dobies – Competition Entries & Winners

September 3, 2020

2020 has seen many of us finding new activities to fill our time and occupy our minds during the lockdown. We have seen how well our gardening community has adapted…

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DOBIES’ NEW SEED VARIETIES – 2021

September 1, 2020

In an unprecedented year, the horticultural world has seen an explosion of interest in growing your own produce from seed. With so many of us having been impassioned to grow…

General

The Back To Nature Collection

July 31, 2020

There are many emotional and physical benefits to gardening and spending time out of doors. You can now reap the benefits with our Back to Nature Collection. At RHS Chelsea,…

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Grow With Dobies Competition

July 3, 2020

We’re all too aware by this point that 2020 has been a strange year so far. Many of us find ourselves spending more time at home, and our gardening community…

General

How to grow Jacaranda – Bonsai Blue

May 16, 2020

Jacaranda – Bonsai Blue At last, the world’s first compact Jacaranda! How to look after your Jacaranda Plant – Bonsai blue Jacaranda Plant – Bonsai blue prefers well-draining, enriched soil…

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75 Years Later, We’re Still in This Together

May 6, 2020

Global events of 2020 have made us think about many things from a very different perspective, with many industries being compelled to innovate through difficult times. We have looked back…

General Press

The 75th Anniversary of Digging for Victory – ‘Fighting on the Homefront’

May 4, 2020

“It is the bounden duty of those who have the smallest space to cultivate, to do so intensively, that the brave may be fed and that the lifeline of the…

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The Dobies Guide to RHS Chelsea

May 1, 2020

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the most renowned horticultural event in the country. Occurring every year in May it’s a “must not miss” event for the most esteemed horticulturalists…

General

RHS Chelsea Plant of the Decade Award

May 1, 2020

We only enter the RHS Chelsea competition if we have a truly sensational plant; to date we’ve entered twice and been fortunate enough to win on both occasions – in…

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For Peat’s Sake

February 27, 2020

How and why we have gone peat-free in 2020! Going Peat Free This year we have worked tirelessly to ensure that all of the plants we grow ourselves are 100%…

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