How to Decide what Tomatoes to Grow
The range of tomato varieties from which to choose is so wide it is easy to fall into the trap of only ever growing what you’ve always grown. This means…
Azalea Encore is Re-blooming Lovely!
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…
New Vegetable Plant Varieties
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…
Dobies in Bloom
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…
Grow Your Own Grapes
Evidence shows that grapes were first cultivated 6,000 to 8,000 years ago with the oldest winery being discovered in Armenia dating to 4,000 BC. Today about 72 million tonnes of…
Dobies Confirmed as Best Value Supplier
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…
Sweet Peas
One of our most popular annual flowers summer just wouldn’t be complete without sweet peas growing happily somewhere in the garden. The wonderful range of colours and heady scent makes…
The Village Show
“If no one enters items for the show then there is no show” was said to me a long time ago but remains the reason I enter classes with sometimes…
Dobies Magic Bean Competition Results!
Dobies prize winning beans competition. Winners announced in true pantomime style!
Brittany Observed (or parts of it)
Quintessentially France I have just returned from ten days in Brittany – wonderful weather and over 700 miles of touring, door to door. Camera and journal / sketchbook allowed me…