There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

Add support to peonies that have, large, heavy flowers such as ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ and ‘Duchesse de Nemours’. Special tapered, cone-shaped supports for peonies are available and can be simply pushed int

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

In the first few years of growing cut flowers at Perch Hill, we would have some weeks where the place was bursting with flowers, making it hard to keep up, and other weeks (which frustratingly always