Dobies Blog

National Gardening Week’s in full swing – and we’re all about encouraging Britain’s gardeners to join forces and grow together. There are some fantastic initiatives that make it easier than…

It’s National Gardening Week from 30th April – 6th May, and what better reason to celebrate all the things that make being a gardener great? The connection between nature and…

The use of gardening to boost health and wellbeing is a subject that’s close to our hearts here at Dobies, so we’re thrilled to be sponsors of the Growing Better…

There are 5 weeks to go, and we’ve started counting down to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. We’re thrilled that the Welcome to Yorkshire garden’s set to include vegetables from…

With so much choice when it comes to perennial border plants, choosing the perfect products for your garden can be difficult. If you’ve yet to try splitting your birders into…

We were thrilled to see the Rouge Crapaudine beetroot take to the limelight on Monday night’s MasterChef, as Kenny created beetroot steaks slow cooked in beef fat. Part of a…

Waiting my turn at the dentist recently I was surprised when they called the name of the next patient. “Ailsa Craig” was not however my expected shiny red tomato but…

Belonging to the same genus as buttercups, Ranunculus are amongst the most beautiful of plants. The brightly coloured flowerheads have crepe paper thin petals, packed tightly together and balanced on…

After weeks of sunshine I’m not quite sure why I visited the Dobies plant nursery on the first rainy day, but I did. Did I say rain? It was more…

Some plants seem to be like marmite but I didn’t think that the fuchsia fell into that category. It seems that perhaps they do. Yesterday I visited nursery and was…