Best Kids’ Gardening Tools, Sets and Kit | BBC Gardeners’ World

Secateurs are an indispensable tool, essential for tidying up around the garden. While tools like hedge trimmers and other cordless garden tools are ideal for taking on heavy duty tasks, secateurs are a simple, hand-held tool used for keeping on top of pruning, dead-heading, cutting back perennials and harvesting fruit, veg and flowers. Available as bypass, anvil and ratchet, each type is designed for a particular job:

This list of the Best Outdoor Christmas Plants, with their beauty and colors, is precisely what you need to uplift your home garden with Christmas vibes this winter.

Here are the Best Seeds for Gardening that Grow Quickly in Just 5 Days! From herbs to vegetables and fruits – we have picked the most quick ones to sprout!

The Great Garden Experiment | Meet Our 2023 Reader Garden Award Winners! These award-winning gardeners combine science with artistry to create an inspiring landscape. Take a tour with us! Introducing Our 2023 Garden Gate Reader Garden Award Winners!

Purple Tulip Varieties – From delicate lilacs to deep, regal hues, the world of purple tulips offers a captivating range of shades that can transform any garden or floral arrangement into a sea of royal splendor!

It can be hard enough finding suitable shade plants, and choosing the best plants for shady slopes is even harder. The plants need to be be sturdy enough to cling to a slope and also tolerate low light. They are out there, though, if you know where to look. Erosion control shade plants may be bushes, grasses or low groundcovers, and should be adaptable to the site conditions.

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

It’s a tentative start. We crack open wet soil, slot the roots of a small birch tree into the gap and firm it in. The blessings of Mother Earth on you, little tree. The birch is a bare slip of a thing barely anchored in the ground. One down, 23,999 to go.

If you are a fan of colors and want a specimen that’s also easy to maintain, here are the Best Variegated Philodendrons that you must try growing!

When you’re working outside, whether pruning, weeding, digging, or planting, it’s important you’re dressed for the job. Wearing the correct clothing helps to protect you and also allows you to comfortably stay in the garden no matter the weather.

Whilst we huddle with cups of hot chocolate, wrapped in layers of wool, gearing ourselves up to make those first boot tracks in crisp frost, our wintry gardens are already being enjoyed by the birds. From the cunning Treecreeper to the bolshy Robin, the RSPB help us identify who will be paying your garden a visit in the cold season.

Spring is when wildlife reawakens in our countryside, parks and gardens. Despite the cold chill still in the air, signs of spring will be starting to appear and our garden birds will become more recognisable during the breeding season. From the noisy Willow Warbler to the colourful Siskin, the RSPB help us identify what birds will be paying a visit to your garden this spring.