Autumn garden tour and tips – plus new t-shirts, hoodies and totes
How the hot, dry summer changed the autumn garden, what to do with leaves and see our new organic, sustainable range of t-shirts, hoodies and totes! Free postage & packing this weekend (Nov 4/5th) The Middlesized Garden Teemill store: https://the-middlesized-garden.teemill.com/…
Designing a new border – top tips from garden experts
Does your flower border need a complete revamp? Or are you starting from scratch with a new border? At the Middlesized Garden, we’re renovating our main herbaceous border, so we’ll take you through how to do it, step by step.…
The very BEST time to plant perennials + top tips on filling a gap in your border
Henry Macaulay of Marchants Hardy Plants on the best time to plant, how to fill gaps in your border and other expert border tips. 00:00 Welcome 00:22 Marchants Hardy Plants: https://www.marchantshardyplants.co.uk/ 00:30 Secret Gardens of the South East by Barbara…
5 GARDEN IDEAS FROM GREAT DIXTER
If you go to Great Dixter Garden in Sussex, you’ll pick up so much inspiration for your own garden. Here are five ideas for you that I spotted there today. Great Dixter House & Garden: https://www.greatdixter.co.uk/ #shorts Music licensed by…
Salvias – Expert Tips on How to Grow These Long-Lasting Garden Flowers
Salvias add flower colour to your garden throughout summer and autumn, often flowering for months at a time. Top salvia expert William Dyson of @Great Comp Garden and Dyson’s Nurseries explains how to choose, grow and prune these beautiful flowers.…
How to Grow Daffodils – Plant Now for Months of Beautiful Flowers in Spring
Now is the time to plant daffodil bulbs – and if you want a brilliant spring garden, daffodils will give you months of flowers for very little effort. I’ve decided to grow more daffodils in the garden, and only to…
Clear away dead plants or wait and see? Why it’s sometimes better to wait…
No-one wants to see dead plants in their garden, but if a plant has been hit by weather extremes, then sometimes it just shuts down rather than dying. In the recent heat wave, many of my plants appeared to die,…
Q&A – answering your questions on trees, soil, planting and the Middlesized Garden..
Should you plant more trees? What’s the difference between mulch and compost? What advice did you wish you had when you started gardening? I’m answering your questions on gardening and the Middlesized Garden…. 00:00 Welcome 00:49 Should I plant more…
12 drought tolerant plants that will also be happy if it rains!
Even if your summers are getting hotter and drier, you can still get the occasional wet summer. So if you’re thinking about filling gaps in your garden with more drought tolerant plants, you also want them to be happy if…
Rock garden ideas and inspiration – perfect for drought tolerant planting and slopes
Rock gardens were an essential element in the English country garden – and even in small town gardens – for most of the last century. But too popular often turns to neglected and taken for granted. Now there’s a rockery…