Dobies have been supplying flower and vegetable seeds direct to gardeners since 1894, starting in the Chester area, and for over fifty years now, to customers throughout the UK. Dobies are proud to have been awarded the coveted “Best Buy” Seed Supplier by Which? Gardening with “an impressive 91% of seed producing healthy seedlings”. Dobies[…]
Gardening News – New Flower And Veg Seeds From Dobies For 2021
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Fruit and veg gardening, Gardening news, Ornamental gardening, Seeds Oct 21, 2020
Gardening News – New Flower And Veg Seeds From Suttons For 2021
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Fruit and veg gardening, Gardening news, Ornamental gardening, Seeds Sep 15, 2020
Many of the new season’s seed ranges are available online now or in the coming weeks. If you are anything like me you will derive great pleasure from trawling through the new seed selections and, with bated breath, you will be eager to discover the latest breeding in flowers for your summer displays and fruit[…]
Gardening News – Supersized plants and soil science: RHS reveals gardening trends for 2020
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Gardening news Jan 15, 2020
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has revealed what plants, designs and activities it expects to prove popular with the UK’s 27 million gardeners in 2020. Drawing on the expertise of horticultural experts from its gardens, retail centres, science and communities teams, the charity has shortlisted what it thinks the new year has in store for[…]
Gardening news – Breaking the daffodil code: new research is first step in bulb identification
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Bulbs, Gardening news Nov 12, 2018
The RHS and Reading University map daffodil’s chloroplast genome for the first time Genetic markers could help identify bulbs at point of sale and aid conservation efforts and breeding of new cultivars Gardeners might end up never planting the wrong bulb again after the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and Reading University successfully mapped a daffodil’s[…]
Gardening news – More Awards for T&M’s Sunflower SunBelievable™ ‘Brown Eyed Girl’
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Container gardening, Gardening news, Ornamental gardening, Summer Oct 09, 2018
Following its success at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May, Thompson & Morgan’s in-house-bred sunflower, SunBelievable™ ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ has won even more awards and accolades. Proving hugely popular in the US, the new sunflower was awarded the Retailers’ Choice Award at the FARWEST Show in Portland, Oregon, as well as the 2018 American[…]
Gardening news – Begonias top RHS People’s Choice Awards
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Container gardening, Gardening for beginners, Gardening news, Ornamental gardening, Young plants Oct 09, 2018
Begonias have been voted a plant favourite in the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) annual People’s Choice Awards. Visitors to RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey were asked to vote for their favourite from 84 new varieties trialled over the summer, with the basket and bedding classic securing the top two spots. The pink-frilled petals and lemony[…]
Gardening news – New season’s seed ranges available for 2019
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Container gardening, Fruit and veg gardening, Gardening news, Ornamental gardening, Seeds Oct 03, 2018
Many of the new season’s seed ranges are available online now or in the coming weeks. If you are anything like me you will derive great pleasure from trawling through the new seed selections and, with baited breath, you will be eager to discover the latest breeding in flowers for your summer displays and[…]
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2018 gallery
By Mark - Garden for Pleasure Garden design, Gardening news, RHS flower shows Jul 10, 2018
We all need inspiration for our own gardens. Maybe you will see the ideal feature for your garden by viewing the following gallery of pictures of the gardens at Hampton Court Flower Show 2018. All images copyright RHS If you would like to visit any of the RHS Flower Shows then why not book[…]