Digging in to welcome the Summer

Garden with gravel bed and shade

With summer just around the corner, gardeners are digging in and planning what to grow for the year ahead. Read these tips to help get your gardens in shape...

Calling Staffordshire's Community Gardeners

Published: Mon 20 May 2013

Kim Wilde - celebrity gardener

With the weather getting warmer, and more people getting out in the garden, it's a great time to be celebrating green-fingered people and their achievements.

Who's moving into your garden?

Published: Wed 15 May 2013

Great Tit

New housing has become widespread in eastern England during recent decades, as the region's population has boomed.

Looking after wildlife

Published: Sun 12 May 2013

hedgehog

Making your garden wildlife-friendly is one of the most positive contributions you can make to the environment - and the rewards are great. Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is passionate about encouraging

Notes from a gardener

Published: Sun 12 May 2013

flowers

Michael Walker, Head of Trentham Garden and Estate, takes a look at Staffordshire's gardens - a horticultural odyssey.

Spring into Summer

Published: Fri 10 May 2013

Petunia

May is a great gardening month and probably the last month you can plan for your summer colour in the garden.

Outdoor Living

Published: Fri 10 May 2013

king family garden

A warm summer evening; the last streaks of red have yet to fade from the sky; you are feeling well-fed and nicely mellowed as you relax in your garden after a lovely meal eaten outdoors with a glass of

Your guide to plant fairs

Published: Fri 03 May 2013

red tulips

Now is the time to start thinking about your garden, and what better way to get inspiration than to visit plant fairs? Here, Plant Hunters' Fairs give us an insight into what's in store over the next few

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