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Ten great gardens to visit in the UK

Here are our ten top tips for a great horticultural day out, all around England and in Wales and Scotland too.

A guide to plant health from Jersey Plants Direct

In order to help you get the very best from your plants this retailer has published a guide to plant health, as well as dealing with common pests and diseases - one of several topics on which it provides hints and tips.

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We’re always trying to find ways to improve MyGardenFinder and make it more useful to readers. As a result we’ve added a new in-depth section where we can collect gardening tips and advice. You’ll find the link in the site header and you can read the following articles:

Ten sources of gardening weather advice

If you’re dying to get out in the garden and get a few jobs done, the most important thing to know about is what kind of weather to expect. And, when it comes to protecting tender plants from frost, or your vegetable crops from drought, a good weather forecast is essential. Here’s our guide to sources of weather information and advice on the web, from next weekend’s forecast to coping with the effects of climate change… Read full article here

Ten great reads for gardeners

Looking for some horticultural reads, either for yourself or for loved ones? Lay aside those seed catalogues and take a look at this lot. There’s bound to be something on the list that will suit your needs perfectly… Read full article here

MyGardenFinder’s MyGardenFinder monthly jobs list

We publish each installment of our monthly guide to maintaining your garden in this blog - but for convenience they’re all collected on this page. Make sure you’ve read the latest…

We’re keen to hear about anything you’d like to see featured in this section so, if you’ve got any suggestions, do leave a comment on this post.

Looking for some seasonal reads, either for yourself or for loved ones, until spring comes and you can get back out into the garden?

Lay aside those seed catalogues and take a look at this lot. There’s bound to be something on the list that will suit your needs perfectly:

• The Mediterranean Gardener - Hugh Latymer and Niccolo Grassi - £12.91. This book reveals the rich diversity of trees, shrubs, flowering plants and cacti that will flourish in regions where summers are hot and dry and winters mild and wet. There are descriptions of more than 300 plants, most of them readily obtainable. Many of the subjects are illustrated in colour photographs.
• The RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening - Christopher Bricknell - £26.60. The definitive practical guide to gardening, from the experts at the RHS. From gardening techniques, planning and maintenance to growing plants, fruits or vegetables, create a thriving garden by following their unrivalled advice.
• The Allotment Handbook - Caroline Foley - £9.87. Allotment gardening is becoming increasingly popular as more and more people discover that growing their own organic vegetables, fruit and herbs is an attractive and achievable option. Gardening also has additional benefits: it is an excellent way to take exercise and can be very therapeutic. The Allotment Handbook is full of practical information and tips on every aspect of growing produce on an allotment.
• Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners - Christopher Lloyd - £15.20. The great plantsman tells the story of his Exotic Garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex which has delighted, and sometimes shocked, summer visitors since it replaced the Edwardian rose garden nearly fifteen years ago. The rose garden, designed by Edward Lutyens, had remained unchanged for nearly eighty years. Then, in 1993, much to the horror of many establishment figures, Lloyd asked his newly appointed head gardener Fergus Garrett to eliminate the roses. And then the fun began…
• Life in the Undergrowth - David Attenborough - £15.20. Enter a secret universe teeming with life and in all our gardens, yet one which never see it. It is a world of sex, drugs and violence and it contains not just bugs, beetles and creepy-crawlies, but scorpions and centipedes, mites and mantids, spiders and dragonflies. Witness the dramatic battles between predator and prey that are happening in the corner of your living room and in your lawn and borders.
• The Naming of Names - Anna Pavord - £25.50. A book that traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. In a world full of plaques and poisons, there was a practical need to name and recognise different plants: most medicines were made from plant extracts. Anna Pavord takes us on a thrilling adventure into botanical history.
• Birds Britannica - Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey - £26.60. A work of huge importance as well as a handsome, easy-to-read, comprehensive cultural study of all the birds in Britain, species by species. This is not an identification guide, instead it attempts to describe the interaction of birds and humans and, in so doing, captures the essence of why birds matter.
• Meadows - Christopher Lloyd and Jonathan Buckley - £21.25. A meadow of grasses and wildflowers is a breathtaking sight and one that some gardeners crave to reproduce. The community created by flowers and grasses, butterflies, grasshoppers and other fauna, is rich and colourful - but fast disappearing. Full of practical information, this book is packed with all the advice for creating and maintaining your meadow that keen gardeners could desire.
• Moro East - Samuel Clark and Samantha Clark - £17.50. Sam and Sam Clark renew their passion for the food of Spain and the Muslim Mediterranean, but this time they find their inspiration in an East End allotment. Bordered by the River Lea and the Grand Union Canal, on its own little island, Manor Garden allotments may seem a world away from Moorish Spain or Morocco. However, once beyond the gates, you are transported to the Eastern Mediterranean by a community of Turks and Cypriots who cultivate and cook an extraordinary range of ingredients.
• Nature Cure - Richard Mabey - £6.07. In 1999 Britain’s foremost nature writer fell into a severe depression. He could neither work nor play, his money ran out and, worst of all, the natural world became meaningless. Then he gradually recovered and started to write again, thanks to the joy of discovering a new landscape. This remarkable book is an account of that first year of a new life.