A busy working life may make it difficult to source the right plants for your garden, but gardening subscription boxes and gardening kits save you time, delivering anything from seeds to gardening kit, to helpful gardening instructions straight to your door. This convenience has given gardening kits and subscription boxes a growing niche among subscription-style services, delivering houseplants, seeds and vegetables direct to your door every month, season or just when you need them.
To get the most out of your gardening subscription box you’ll need the right tools. See our expert-tested review of the best trowels and our guide to the best watering cans for help planting and watering. Our guides to the best cold frames and the best cloches will give your new plants some added protection.
The best gardening subscription boxes and kits in 2023Oddbox
For gardeners keen to cut down on waste, Oddbox delivers the wonky and excess vegetables most supermarkets reject. They also have a handy blog, which features several useful gardening guides on growing your own fruit and veg, including from food scraps. With Oddbox, you can sign up for weekly vegetable deliveries, or just order individual boxes according to your needs, and you can customise the ingredients and size of your box too.
Price: from £10.99 per box
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Flourishy
For gardeners looking to grow their own food, Flourishy is a seasonal subscription box that helps you to create a vibrant vegetable garden. Delivering four boxes a year, one each season, each box is tailor-made to provide the essentials for growing and maintaining your veg garden at that time of year. From seeds to watering cans to hand soap, Flourishy includes a balance of gardening essentials,
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Each year the Royal Horticultural Society runs comprehensive trials of popular garden plants to find those that are the best to grow. A three-year trial of sanguisorba came to its conclusion recently, and lots of excellent garden-worthy varieties won the Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Echinaceas are real dazzlers in the late-summer border: sturdy daisies standing erect with flowers that resemble sets of spinning saucers. The colourful sun-ray petals surround bronzed, almost metallic cones. These prickly centres also give echinacea its name, for Ekhînos is Greek for hedgehog.
Echinaceas are real dazzlers in the late-summer border: sturdy daisies standing erect with flowers that resemble sets of spinning saucers. The colourful sun-ray petals surround bronzed, almost metallic cones. These prickly centres also give echinacea its name, for Ekhînos is Greek for hedgehog.
Each year the Royal Horticultural Society runs comprehensive trials of popular garden plants to find those that are the best to grow. A three-year trial of sanguisorba came to its conclusion recently, and lots of excellent garden-worthy varieties won the Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
There are a lot of beautiful plants that you can grow indoors even if you don’t have much space. Have a look at the adorable Pictures of the Best Small Houseplants!
One of the most common and essential pieces of kit for DIY in the garden and home is the claw hammer. With a long handle and a weighted head, they have a face for striking and driving in nails, and a claw for removing nails and prying apart boards. Whether you’re making a hedgehog house, mending fences or building a shed, a claw hammer is a vital tool.
Bloom is the biggest annual event in the Irish gardening calendar featuring show gardens of all sizes, themed floral displays, nursery displays, plant sales and a range of interactive platforms where visitors can get professional advice from a host of gardening experts. Before you go here’s what you need to know, along with some of the highlights of this year’s show.
According to the National Gardening Association, tomatoes are the most commonly grown backyard vegetable, and for good reason.Not only is a fresh-picked, homegrown tomato extraordinarily tasty
You may know Nancy Lawson as “The Humane Gardener” (also the title of her previous book). She has a new book out called “Wildscape” (affiliate links) that asks us to adjust our senses to take into account everyone out there whose world it is—everyone else whose world it is, and was, before we intervened.Nancy Lawson is a naturalist and a habitat consultant based in Maryland who promotes animal-friendly plant strategies and challenges us to sharpen our awareness that we’re not alone out there. (Above, a spring mome