10 tips for using metals in the garden

It seems strange, I know, to talk of growing winter crops for the polytunnel or glasshouse, smack-bang in the middle of a very sultry Irish summer. But the simple truth is that the secret to making the best, and most productive use, of these valuable covered growing spaces throughout the year has always been to plan and propagate very far ahead.

Are you a celery fan? Done right, it’s satisfyingly flavorful with a pleasing texture that leaves you wanting more.But it can be difficult for the home gardener to achie

Summer has arrived with a host of new trends to embrace and explore. With so many options to choose from, it can be difficult to pin down which trends are best suited for your home. Big statements and patterns work well for some, while more subtle timeless options are more in line with others—luckily, our zodiac signs can provide some insight.

Have you ever visited a botanical garden on a warm spring day and marveled at tulips in a rainbow of colors, with shapes ranging from cups to stars, contrasting striations, and ruffled edges?Now’s your chance to bring a taste of that awes

Early Girl tomato arrived in the United States from France as the result of one man’s mission to introduce a flavorful, short-season tomato variety to American gardeners. Since its introduction in 1975, Early Girl has remained one of the most popular tomato varieties among home gardeners, and for good reason. Prized for its early season production, Early Girl tomato plants are easy to grow and highly productive, yielding flavorful medium-sized fruits as early as 55 days after planting. 

Like tiny pieces of bright blue sky dropped into your garden, forget-me-nots are one of the few true-blue flowers available to gardeners.These plants are steeped in history and symbolism, and are eas

I’m sure we can all agree that there is nothing quite like a freshly picked, homegrown tomato. In fact, I would go so far as to say enjoying an exceptional tomato can genuinely be a life changing experience.This might sound a tad dramatic, but I can certai

Flowering in the mid- to late spring garden with massive displays of large, sweetly fragrant flowers, lilacs are admired throughout the landscape and beloved as a cut flower as well.The large, pyramid-like panicles are dazz

If you ask people what plant they would take into space (which I do, quite a bit), a significant number of them answer potatoes, because they can’t imagine a life without French fries (chips, if you’re British). The only problem with that is that, so far, no one has worked out how to make fries in space. The International Space Station doesn’t have a deep fat fryer, and you can imagine the health & safety nightmare that would be in microgravity. In The Martian, Mark Watney has to make do with a microwave, and rues the day he runs out of ketchup.

Two things we really like are coffee and plants. Ok, let us add a third thing that we truly love: nice, personal and green interiors. For our series ‘A World of Plants for USM Haller’ we traveled this time to the German city of Fulda and visited the creative local Simon Zimmermann in his stylish home.

Today we want to take you on another home story for our ‘A World of Plants for USM Haller’ campaign. We have taken you on a tour of a green home office in Berlin, a southern French hallway design, and now we want to show you a collected Berlin home with strong vintage vibes – of course equipped with the new USM plant shelves.

This is a garden that has been on my list of places to visit for a while now.  About half an hour north of Rouen, it is an extraordinarily sophisticated and beautiful garden tucked away on two sides of a road  in a tiny village. Alexandre Thoma