Hints & Tips
With decades of experience growing and critiquing thousands of plant varieties, Bob Brown shares his passion, expertise and candid opinions on all things horticulture. From practical gardening advice to deep dives into hardy perennials, this blog is a resource to inspire and inform gardeners of all levels.
Hints & Tips
Adults only
Lavatory humour? In plant names? Well, yes, but only with some imagination.
Adults only
Lavatory humour? In plant names? Well, yes, but only with some imagination.
Clematis Cuttings
You can propagate clematis in several ways but May is the time to take semi-ripe cuttings. The critical test is to bend the shoot and discover where soft growth runs...
Clematis Cuttings
You can propagate clematis in several ways but May is the time to take semi-ripe cuttings. The critical test is to bend the shoot and discover where soft growth runs...
Pot Drainage
Gardeners don’t like throwing things away. If you need evidence look in your garden shed or, indeed, at the plants in your garden. And, if you can bring yourself to...
Pot Drainage
Gardeners don’t like throwing things away. If you need evidence look in your garden shed or, indeed, at the plants in your garden. And, if you can bring yourself to...
Son, Sex and Sambucus
I am proud to announce that my son Edmund is a plant nerd! His wife jokes that hourssearching the net are for a special kind of pornography called Sambucus that...
Son, Sex and Sambucus
I am proud to announce that my son Edmund is a plant nerd! His wife jokes that hourssearching the net are for a special kind of pornography called Sambucus that...
Digging up Celandines, Grape Hyacinths and Blue...
March and April are good times to begin the long eradication of these plants. Of course not everyone views them as undesirable – they are easy to grow, colourful, present for...
Digging up Celandines, Grape Hyacinths and Blue...
March and April are good times to begin the long eradication of these plants. Of course not everyone views them as undesirable – they are easy to grow, colourful, present for...
How to grow Frits
Gardening is suffused with actions based not on reality and best practice but misinformed common knowledge. (If I use the phrase ‘Old Wive’s Tales’ I worry about the insult to...
How to grow Frits
Gardening is suffused with actions based not on reality and best practice but misinformed common knowledge. (If I use the phrase ‘Old Wive’s Tales’ I worry about the insult to...