Overwintering Dahlias
Overwintering dahlias is worth doing correctly to ensure that next year you can again enjoy the colourful blooms. Dependant on whereabouts you live your dahlias are probably looking pretty untidy…
Flower Arranging with Rob Smith
Cut Flower Arranging There are not many better reasons for growing your own flowers than to create your own cut flower arrangements. With the Rob Smith range of cut flowers…
Growing Wallflowers
Wallflowers are both easy to grow and hardy. These cottage garden biennial favourites have deservedly graced our gardens for many years. Not only do the jewel colours brighten a dull…
Indian Marigold Kushi Mix
Mention Indian Marigold to many people and the conversation will turn to exotic hotels or cheap rubber gloves, but it is the flower that this blog will focus on.
Rob’s Cut Flower Range
We’re delighted to have Rob Smith, winner of The Big Allotment Challenge 2015 on the team. Rob’s love of veg led to the development of a new heritage veg range…
The Village Show
I’m sure several of you will have visited a Village Show at some time over the summer and strolled round the horticultural tent, perhaps thinking “wow” and occasionally “mine at…
Plants for Coastal Gardens
We thought we’d share with you some excerpts from a Dobies of Devon article published in the February/March edition of the English Riviera magazine down here in sunny Torbay. The…
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…
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…