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Hanging Basket season is nearly upon us again.

We don't like hanging baskets. Even worse than hanging baskets are hanging baskets filled with bedding plants - they are no good for your garden, create loads of extra work, they are really expensive and in most cases thrown away after the summer. We want to make gardening easier but hanging baskets most definitely do not!

There are so many better alternatives that are far more environmentally friendly,  here's why it is time to ditch this garden favourite

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One of our 'little listens series' , here's 5 minutes of garden design advice on how to transform a small narrow courtyard into a tiny urban garden.

The problem of 'dead space' and how to avoid it - small gardens suffer from dead space, so what is it and how do you 'design' it out

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Show Gardens are amazing - but don't forget they are just that a show.

It's easy to be seduced by the gardens on show at places like the RHS flowers show at Chelsea, Hampton Court and around the UK. These gardens showcase the best and most avant garde designs, they inspire us to get into our own gardens and transform them, but are these gardens really aspirational? Can the ordinary gardener really take inspiration from these gardens and try to copy them at home, or should we be looking for inspiration elsewhere?

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A bit of 2 minute Soapbox moment, but we always look to make gardening easier, we want people to have gardens they can easily look after. So it really get's our goat when plant labels don't give real advice - like "don't plant upwind of a path or patio" for example. A simple sentence on the  plant label would enable you to make sure you don't plant a problem!

Grasses, everyone loves grasses in gardens, they are easy to look after. Grasses are really good a setting seed - but beware grass seeds and the wind!

soapbox over - but if you have any 'soapbox moments' you want to get off your chest, email us [email protected] - and we'll podcact the best ones. (witty, funny, serious but clean please)

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Gardeners are changing, a neat manicured bug free garden is now seen as one that is out of touch, creating gardens that are both beautiful but bee friendly are most definitely in. But is the horticultural industry really buying into this new trend? Garden Centres seem to be filled more and more with plants that are forced into flower, they are stacked to the rafters with massed displays of bedding plants or row upon row of hanging basket.they seem to have become more like supermarkets - so is the horticulture industry good for the planet?

We need our gardens to be part of the outside world not separate from the outside world. Our havens are also havens for indigenous wildlife. #amdoingmybit

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How's about this, a podcast on garden paths.... but we all need them so we thought they were worth talking about. So you can read about how to make low maintenance garden paths

It's easy to create a really ugly garden path that looks like a runway down the garden but paths can be lovely too. Read more at PlantPlots.com

Exciting stuff eh? Bet you can't wait till next week :)

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Why do some plants grow so fast and others want to take over the world! - read more at PlantPlots.com

Advice on how to keep your garden behaving itself

See Plants to Avoid if you Don't Like Gardening

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Where do you start when faced with an overgrown weed patch - it can seem a bit daunting. but you can start to turn this eyesore into a workable garden... and here's how.

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Garden Design is all about making the best of the space you have. But what if you haven't got much space in the first place. Well then we have to use a couple of simple design tricks to make the garden feel a bit bigger than it is...

How to make your garden look bigger

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