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Machinery Must Haves For The Gardening Novice

If you’re looking to start gardening, there are a few items of machinery you’ll need to get started. Whether you’ve only recently moved into a home with a garden to tend to or simply think it’s time to step up your lawncare game this spring, Lawnmower’s Direct has put together this guide to the three […]

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A Guide to Sustainable Gardening

Sustainability is a huge topic of concern in many sectors of everyday life, including gardening. As sustainability becomes more of a talking point among the general public, more and more people are trying to think of ways that they can help the planet by being more sustainable. What a lot of people don’t know is […]

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Caring For Your Lawn During the Spring Months

The cold winter months are particularly hard on gardens, so your lawn is likely to be in need of some TLC by the time it reaches the spring. In order to attain optimum results ready for the summer, you need to prepare your lawn in the correct way during the crucial spring months. We have […]

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Learning to Garden Through Youtube: The Top Five Channels

Learning to Garden Through Youtube: The Top Five Channels

For many gardeners, experienced and amateurs alike, it’s a case of learning on the job. However, if you’re looking to get to grips with the basics of gardening before getting started, learning from others who have experience is a good option. If you don’t know a handy gardener, you may find yourself turning to the […]

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Gardening New Year’s Resolutions

Lose weight, quit smoking… we’ve all heard the classic new year’s resolution. But as we move into 2019, why not consider what you can do differently in the garden this year? After all, if you’re passionate about gardening, it’s something you’re far more likely to stick to. It’s important not to get stuck in a […]

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Should I Clear Dead Leaves From My Garden?

Although winter is generally considered downtime for gardeners, there are still decisions to be made regarding your lawn’s health that will keep it looking green all year round. Autumn leaves may look pretty swell as they change colour, but once the season comes to a close and they fall to the ground, they’re pretty much […]

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Gardening as Therapy

For many people, gardening is a much-loved hobby and an integral part of their life. For others, it can be a transformative coping strategy. Research carried out by the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) showed that 79% of people believe that access to a garden is a key factor for quality of life. Similar studies have […]

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How to Cut a Straight Hedge

A well-manicured hedge can truly define your garden, whether it is in front of your property or at the back. Straight hedges are the hallmark of finesse when it comes to making your home stand out from the crowd, but there are a few things to bear in mind before you get started. We’ve put […]

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How to Care for an Ornamental Lawn

You may not realise it, but there are many different types of lawn. For those without young children or animals who need space to run or play, creating an ornamental law is a highly attractive prospect. However, a beautiful garden doesn’t come without slightly more maintenance. What is an ornamental lawn? Whereas a family lawn […]

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Podcasts for Gardeners

Podcasts for Gardeners

Even the most avid gardener sometimes lacks a little inspiration. While there are endless great television programmes, books and magazines out there, don’t underestimate the power of a good podcast. After all, unless you have a television in your backyard, listening to a podcast is the only inspiration you can enjoy as you’re gardening. So […]

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Essential Products for Beginner Gardeners

It’s useless to pretend otherwise: the market for garden equipment is saturated with products. For the experienced gardener, this is the grown-up equivalent of being a kid in a candy store, but for the humble beginner the sheer amount of tools available to you can feel overwhelming and even put you off starting a proper […]

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Urban Gardening Ideas: Top 7 Plant Types for your Urban Garden

So you spend a lot of time on Pinterest and Instagram, looking at lovely big gardens and bright, colourful plants, or even kitchen gardens that keep a family fed with barely a trip to the supermarket. You look outside to your own garden and see a tiny plot of land, perhaps not even big enough […]

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Bee Friendly Plants – How to Attract Bees to Your Garden

Gardens take a lot of looking after. Watering regularly, trimming, weeding… There’s very rarely such thing as a quick fix. However, there is something fairly easy you can do to take your garden to new heights – as well as contribute to the wellbeing of the environment more generally. It is not some magic formula […]

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Upcycled Garden Ideas – 5 Cost-Effective Ways to Freshen Up the Garden

It’s mid-summer, and maybe your garden doesn’t have the life in it that it had a month or two ago, and the garden decorations aren’t exactly inspiring. However, your budget right now just will not stretch to a whole new set of garden furniture with the kids off school and having to keep them entertained […]

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A Guide to Environmentally Friendly Lawncare

A healthy, well-kept lawn is a sight to behold,  but some gardeners aren’t just looking to keep their own gardens green. Eco-friendly lawnmowing is becoming more popular among gardeners, and there are several schools of thought on the greenest way of mowing and caring for a lawn. Fertilisers and Chemicals While fertilisers will help your […]

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Blending Bugs – Some Unusual Gardening Tips that Actually Work

Every gardener develops their own tricks and techniques to use in the garden, and old wives tales are as important a part of the art of gardening as trowels and sun hats. If you’re looking to get more out of your garden or just find uses for common household waste, try these ten unusual (but […]

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The Ultimate Summer Gardening Checklist – 21-30

Couldn’t stay away, could you? We’re well aware that our summer gardening checklist is more tantalising than a Netflix series finale episode, so fear not: here’s the third and final part of the saga. Follow these tips and you’re sure to have the Joneses trying to keep up with you over the coming months.

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The Ultimate Summer Gardening Checklist – 11-20

Couldn’t get enough of the first instalment of our summer gardening checklist? Well, not to worry, because here are ten more tips to keep your garden gorgeous, your backyard beautiful and your terrace looking terrific.

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The Ultimate Summer Gardening Checklist – 1-10

Elevated temperatures and longer days have seen keen gardeners up and down the country tentatively return to their front and back lawns, as the invigorating scent of freshly cut grass once again fills the air – it’s summer. And now that it’s here there are a few things that all green-fingered enthusiasts would do well […]

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How on Earth do Robot Mowers Work?

You wouldn’t necessarily expect the field of lawnmower design to be a place where major technological strides are being made. You’d assume that robotics would be focusing on driverless cars, military drones or household servants before moving into gardening – but you’d be wrong. Autonomous and semiautonomous robotic lawnmowers have been in the market for […]

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10 Best Gardening Apps for Summer

Gardening is a traditional pastime for those who want to get away from screens and computers and enjoy the sunshine (when it comes) for a while, but that doesn’t mean that the gardening world shies away from mobile apps and technology.   We’ve put together the best apps in the business to help you take […]

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An Interview with The Anxious Gardener (David Marsden)

David Marsden is the author of popular and award-winning gardening blog The Anxious Gardener. His blog has won awards from the Gardening Media Guild and the Royal Horticultural Society as well as appearing recently in both The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. David was kind enough to take the time to answer some questions […]

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Best Websites for Gardeners

Best Websites for Gardeners

There’s a website for everything – and several thousand for most. It can make it a bit of a chore sifting through what’s out there and finding the best places to read up about you hobbies, and for advice which will make your life easier. Gardeners will know that with a topic as big as […]

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Make Your Own Lasagne Bed

Sometimes gardening can seem a bit too much like hard work, but lasagne gardening (also called sheet composting) is perfect if you want to avoid some of the pitfalls. Lasagne gardening is a no till, no dig method that as the word ‘lasagne’ implies is all about the layering. But layering what? Got a few […]

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10 Amazing Examples of Chainsaw Art

Chainsaws aren’t just for ridding your property of unruly branches or trees – recently, they’ve become the chosen tools for making some pretty incredible artwork. Just the idea of making art with chainsaws is amazing in and of itself, considering just how cumbersome the tool can be. Creating a delicate statue laced with realistic details […]

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A Brief History of Lawnmower Racing

Although we all like to get those blades buzzing for a whizz around the garden to keep things trim, there are some people who are so revved up by their mowers that they’ve turned it into a motorsport. Make no mistake – lawnmower racing is a much loved pastime across the world, and involves everyone […]

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A Quick Look at Lawnmowers in Film

When you think of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, the trusty lawnmower isn’t necessarily the first thing that springs to mind. But while action heroes speed around in fast cars and helicopters, some of our best-loved characters have been taking it slow, giving faithful ride-on mowers their fifteen minutes of fame. Not just the […]

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3 of the Most Incredible Lawns in the World

Lawns require a constant input of time and attention, and as a result many are leaving the traditional lawn behind and replacing their expanse of green with low maintenance alternatives such as patios, raised flower beds and decking.

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Your Guide to Weeding in Summer

The summer months are meant to be when your garden flourishes and blooms into stunning arrays of colour and foliage. But not everyone sees their desired results, due to another plant that’s also flourishing in the sunshine – the dreaded weed.

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Your Guide to Summer Lawn Care

Once summer officially arrives, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better spot to enjoy the warm weather than your lawn. Our lawns are the backdrop for barbecues, plush beds for sunbathing and football pitches for a high stakes match. But all of this summer activity can spell trouble for your lawn if the sun-thirsty […]

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