Gardening

Best Vegetables to Grow in Winter

October 18, 2021

With concerns around possible food shortages in supermarkets this winter, now is the ideal time to start growing your own vegetables. Winter can still be

The Garden Show at Loseley Park – 23rd-25th July

July 15, 2021

The tenth Garden Show is set to bloom again at Loseley Park. The perfect event to find all you need to enhance your home, help

Councils trial Hotbin composting scheme as part of wider sustainability efforts

June 30, 2021

A pioneering food waste trial which will give households the chance to reduce their carbon footprint is taking place across Adur and Worthing. Working with

Free tree packs scheme now open for schools and communities

June 20, 2021

Whether planting for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, to help tackle climate change, or to improve local areas around the country, the Woodland Trust’s popular free

Oak Grove College in Worthing seeks help from local gardeners

March 16, 2021

Students at Oak Grove College have put out an urgent call out to local gardeners to help ensure their popular annual plant sale can go

Care for your trees during lockdown

April 14, 2020

There are some areas of gardening which are better left to an expert and tree felling and pruning fall firmly into this category. Stephen Pickett

Grow your own!

April 7, 2020

What could be better than having your own supply of fresh fruit and veg and getting the family outside with a purpose! During the lockdown

Fairy Tale Gardens

March 2, 2020

Exquisite is the only word to describe the Arundel Castle Gardens. From the tropical beds, the vegetable areas or the newly renovated wilderness down by

Rewilding your garden – 8 easy steps

February 2, 2020

Firstly, what is rewilding? Rewilding is returning outdoor spaces to a natural state where nature can evolve without the intense involvement of humans. It allows

Gardening Trends 2020

January 29, 2020

Squire’s Garden Centres has revealed their top three gardening trends for 2020, gardening for wildlife, wellbeing, and the world. 1. Gardening for Wildlife Growing plants

January Resolutions- to enjoy impermanence

January 3, 2020

On a Saturday morning, when you look out of your window, does your garden invite you in or does it look wild, cold and without

Gardening in Winter

December 2, 2019

There’s lots to do in our gardens in Winter but we can go out with our welly boots in a leisurely way, knowing there’s not

Where does our green waste go after it has been collected?

November 20, 2019

Andrew Staib, has always wondered what happens to the garden waste that we take to the tip or put in our recycling bins. Every year

Councils step up action against deadly Ash Dieback disease

August 7, 2019

A task force is to be set up to help manage a deadly disease which could wipe out Adur and Worthing’s entire stock of Ash

Campaign to save Sussex bees is off to a flying start

June 22, 2019

Nearly £5,000 has been raised in just three weeks as part of a new campaign ‘Bee Lines’ which has pledged to help reverse the dramatic

The Rare Plants Man

June 1, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When he could hardly move around his Henfield back garden for lack of space, Steve Law decided to relocate his nursery of rare plants. With

Create an Eco Friendly Garden

May 4, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The news can be depressing about the destruction of nature the world over and the UK has seen a massive decline in most species since

Giving your garden the Spring it deserves

April 6, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]April is the busiest time of the year so there are lots of “Shoulds” in April. You should have cleared the last of the

Leonardslee Gardens

March 2, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The greatest woodland garden in the UK is set to reopen in West Sussex with an excitement for nature lovers akin to Willy Wonka opening

Light Up Your Garden

February 2, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] February can be a joyless month in the garden. Andrew takes a look at some interesting plants to “light up” your garden in the

Using the ancient Chinese philosophy of life to appreciate our gardens this January

January 5, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Most simply, the theory of Yin and Yang describes a world being made up not of opposite and opposing forces, but an experience in life

What’s it like to run a small garden nursery?

December 1, 2018

Garden designer Andrew Staib talks to Ed Nugent from Garden Sage Nursery in Hassocks about the joys and difficulties of running a nursery. It was

Designing your garden this Autumn

November 3, 2018

Autumn is the best time to design your garden. You can still see the echoes of Summer planting and late Summer and Autumn growth is

Sheffield Park – A paradise in Sussex

October 6, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If Andy Jesson was a tree he would be a stout Oak. With his relentless energy and passion for trees, the Head Gardener at Sheffield

Using bulbs in your garden design

September 1, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Now is the time to plant bulbs! Nothing heralds Spring with greater brass band fanfare than bulbs. Just when you thought the world would never