The Middle-Sized Garden Ideas, Tips & Guides

If you buy your garden border plants from the people who grow them, you’ll benefit from their expert advice and knowledge.

Ground cover plants are low-growing plants that spread easily to cover areas where nothing much wants to grow.

The basic idea of No Mow May is simple. Just don’t mow your lawn in May, which allows some wildflowers and weeds to bloom. This provides valuable nectar and habitat for emerging pollinators. And they in turn are a food source for birds, bats and other wildlife.

Before you plant anything in a shady garden, you need to know what kind of shade you have.

Whether you have a steep, sloping garden or just a small bank, there are some key facts you need to know about gardening on a slope.

Before you plant anything in a shady garden, you need to know what kind of shade you have.

A contemporary cottage garden fuses traditional cottage style with ‘naturalistic planting’, according to garden designer, Tim Pilgrim.

We all have ‘difficult garden areas‘ or spaces we want to revamp without re-designing the whole garden.

Are you looking for garden ideas for a difficult part of your garden?

You may not intend to prune your trees yourself.

Leave the leaves is the new gardening mantra.

Do you want to support wildlife in your garden – but you don’t want a ‘wild’ looking garden? You’d like beautiful borders and gorgeous pots? Even, perhaps, a short neat lawn?

Garden border maintenance in both autumn and spring is mainly about the plants.

Here are key autumn garden tips plus 7 top suggestions of plants to plant now.

If you look up garden ruins or follies in the dictionary, you will be told that they are ‘costly ornamental buildings with no practical purpose.’

Kathy and Stuart Pickering created their rustic cottage garden in a stretch of field.

Are you looking at plants in your garden and wondering why they aren’t flowering?

I’m always being asked for ideas for breaking up the space in a shallow wide garden, and also how to make it look longer.

RHS Hampton Court 2023 is short for The RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. But that sounds far too grand.

If you’re going to puppy-proof your garden, there’s lots of advice out there. Not all of it works.

Here’s the pick of the best ideas for your garden from BBC Gardeners World Live 2023.

You can make a container pond out of anything that will hold water.

Garden structure means the permanent elements of your garden, and how they relate to each other.

If you choose the most useful garden tools, you won’t waste money on tools you rarely use.

We all want beautiful but tough perennials in our gardens this year.

I’ve been researching tips for creating a garden border on a budget.

Planting slug resistant plants is the most effective way of stopping slugs and snails from devouring your garden.

If you’re planning or re-vamping a garden, then start with a list of garden style ideas.

Gardening for biodiversity means gardening with nature rather than trying to control it.

If you want to transform your garden on a budget, then Jo and Simon Rutherford have some brilliant tips and ideas to copy.

A stumpery is an area of the garden with tree stumps and logs arranged as decoration. If you’ve got a mature tree with big roots and you can’t plant anything near it, then a stumpery is an interesting and attractive option.

Here are the best ideas for your garden from this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (known as RHS Chelsea 2023).

Here are 5 top insider tips on how tochoose the best plants for your garden.

Box moth caterpillars – also known as box tree moth caterpillars- can strip the leaves from your box plant or hedge.