How to grow chrysanthemums - RHS Gardening
Learn how to grow chrysanthemums in your garden with the RHS expert guide on choosing, planting, feeding, pruning and propagating plants.
How plants breathe - RHS Gardening
Plants don’t have lungs to inhale and exhale the air that blows around them, but they do, in their own way, ‘breathe’ in and out oxygen and carbon dioxide. Here you can discover how plants carry out gas exchange and how we can make sure they breathe easy.
Composting - RHS Gardening
Composting is a great way to make use of your garden waste – everything from lawn clippings to annual weeds, hedge-trimmings to faded flowers.
10 award-winning (AGM) hardy geraniums for the garden - RHS …
What’s the difference between a geranium and a pelagonium? ‘Geranium’ is the name most people use when talking about pelargoniums. But Geranium is actually a different plant genus. To help avoid confusion some refer to Geranium as ‘hardy geraniums’, and Pelargonium as ‘tender geraniums’. Discover 10 hardy geraniums perfect for your garden, which have been awarded …
How to grow dracaena - RHS Gardening
How to grow dracaena. Handsome, undemanding and well-suited to conditions in our homes, dracaenas are deservedly popular houseplants. With a fountain of narrow, glossy leaves at the top of a woody stem, they can have an almost palm-like appearance as they grow taller.
Badgers in your garden / RHS - RHS Gardening
Signs of badger presence in your garden There are a number of signs that a badger has been using your garden: Latrines – badgers leave droppings in open pits, used to mark the edges of their territory.; Snuffle holes – particularly noticeable on lawns due to ripped up turf, these are small pits made by their snouts when sniffing out for food such as earthworms (see further …
Rose pruning: general tips - RHS Gardening
How to prune roses: general tips. When tackling roses bear the following in mind; Cuts should be no more than 5mm (¼ in) above a bud and should slope downwards away from it, so that water does not collect on the bud.This applies to all cuts, whether removing dead wood, deadheading or …
How to grow ranunculus - RHS Gardening
Learn how to grow ranunculus in your garden with the RHS expert guide on choosing, planting, feeding, pruning and propagating plants.
How to grow anthuriums - RHS Gardening
Compact houseplant, usually about 30cm (1ft) tall Glossy leaves and exotic flower-like ‘spathes’ in a choice of bright colours. Anthuriums like warmth, indirect light and humid air
Hellebore (Christmas rose) / RHS
Looks. Nodding flowers in shades of green, white, pink or plum, or even blackish–purple, are set among clumps of leathery, evergreen leaves. Most hellebores are compact, 30–45cm (12–18in) tall, but bolder types, such as Helleborus argutifolius and H. foetidus, can grow to 90cm (3ft).