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May 12, 2025
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Top Tips for Extending Garden Colour into Autumn

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How to plant and grow garlic
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How to grow clematis
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Top ten tips for growing daffodils
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Top ten tips for growing daffodils
Best plants for winter interest
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Best plants for winter interest
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Top tips for shady gardens including shade-loving plants
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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
How to plant and grow garlic
'How To' Guides Vegetables
How to plant and grow garlic
How to grow clematis
'How To' Guides Flowers
How to grow clematis
Top Tips for Extending Garden Colour into Autumn
'How To' Guides Bedding Plants garden care
Top Tips for Extending Garden Colour into Autumn
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General Rob Smith seeds

Rob’s Perfect Cauliflower Cheese Recipe

August 19, 2021

New to Dobies new vegetable seeds for 2022 is the Rob Smith range Cauliflower Seeds – Andromeda F1. This variety is perfect for baking whole and what could be more…

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Ten Bedding Plants to Create a Beautiful Winter Garden

August 5, 2021

Winter bedding plants make it easy to create colourful displays that keep your garden looking great even through the cold winter months. Whether you’re after blooming borders, containers full of…

General Press

New Veg Seeds 2022 To Get You Growing

July 26, 2021

28 new veg and flower seed varieties for 2022! For over 125 years, Dobies has provided gardeners with a fabulous choice of new seed varieties at down to earth prices…

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The Future of Compost!

May 24, 2021

Professional quality, sustainable and RHS-endorsed Melcourt leads the way with this new range of nine professional-quality sustainable products, which are all RHS-endorsed. Here you will find everything from multipurpose compost…

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Dobies Guide to RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show 2021

May 14, 2021

RHS Chelsea is a truly unique, unforgettable experience and a key date in every allotmenteers, avid gardener and flower lover’s calendar. Hundreds of garden designers, growers and famous faces come…

General RHS

Dobies Guide to Sustainable Gardening: RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show 2021

May 10, 2021

This year at the RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show 2021 and the postponed Chelsea Show in September, one of the running themes is sustainability. Therefore, the judges will be certainly…

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New National Trust ‘Get Me Gardening’ Children’s Tool Range

May 10, 2021

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…

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Virtual RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021

May 6, 2021

Virtual RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 has arrived, and Dobies brings you floral inspiration with our Group’s ‘Plant of the Year’ award nominees for 2021! This year, the RHS Chelsea…

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Give Wildlife A Home

May 4, 2021

Give Wildlife a Home, To Call Their Own! Get involved in National Garden Wildlife Week, 31st May to 6th June 2021, by creating wildlife-friendly spaces in your garden! As wildlife…

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Neat Composting Solutions

April 26, 2021

For Kitchens & Gardens Composting is the perfect way to assist the health of your soil and it’s a great way to ensure nothing is wasted. Compost bins have also…

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