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Winning the war against compost flies requires a multi-faceted strategy. Here's how to make your compost pile inhospitable to these unwelcome guests.

A hedgehog house can be a great addition to your garden.

This weekend is the RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch, an opportunity to help the conservation charity understand how UK birds are doing.

Private gardens in the UK cover an area larger than 10 million acres – that is bigger than all the country’s nature reserves combined!

Home composting is a simple, eco-friendly way to improve the soil quality in your garden. 

As the nights draw in and temperatures plummet, the birds in your garden will thank you for putting out bird food and water on a regular basis.

It can sometimes feel like a daunting array of factors need to be considered to keep your indoor plants in good health: light levels, watering and feeding regimes, and temperature all need to combine to create an environment perfectly suited for your indoor specimen.

Ever since ‘tulip mania’ first swept the gardens of Europe in the mid-17th century, tulips have been a regular feature in UK gardens.

Many houseplants enter a dormant phase as light levels decrease in late autumn.