The garden hoe is a useful tool for ongoing garden maintenance. Once a border has been cleared of any perennial nuisances, like dandelions, the hoe can be used to keep a border looking its best. The blade is small enough to fit around plants in your border.

The pruning saw is when even the loppers won’t do. There are a lot of different types of pruning saw and they match their intended uses.

Loopers are very useful for those garden jobs that are just a bit too big for secateurs. You should try and always have a pair if you’re doing any pruning work.

There are all sorts of jobs you can use different rakes to achieve. From levelling an area for turf to raking up leaves. I couldn’t cover all of them in this one blog. I’m going to concentrate on rakes designed for removing fallen leaves, grass clippings and other garden waste.

In this blog we’re going to give you some idea of what to look out for when buying a shovel. Some people confuse them with spades. There is an easy way to remember-

• Spades cut through the soil and are primarily used for digging.

• Shovels move soil and other garden material around.

In this blog we’re going to try to give you some idea of what to look out for when buying a spade. A spade a spade right? But not all spades are created equal.

I’m going to be giving you recommendation for what we think are the best all purpose gardening gloves. Gloves that you can do jobs like weeding and planting with perfect dexterity.

The garden claw tool can be use in a variety of different ways. We use is primarily for clearing smaller unwanted garden material such as annual weeds, leaves or unwanted herbaceous root structures out of beds and borders

Garden trugs are incredibly useful. They carry tools, garden waste, soil, plants, bulbs, everything goes in the trug.

A good pair of secateurs is a must for any gardener. We use them everyday and curse the times we don’t have them because there is always something you need a pair of secateurs for

The garden hand trowel can be used for everything from planting to weeding and cutting through dry soils to digging out roots. The garden trowel is one of the essential basic garden hand tools.

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Did you know that you choice of compost could be contributing to climate change? This is because of one of the main elements in most composts… Peat. Dig a little deeper and find out more.

Find out about the innovative way (or ways) of dealing with the floods that is not only worked but also sustainable! I’ll give you a clue - it’s planting! Jump straight in and find out more!

Zero Waste Starter Kit! The Zero Waste Essentials for your kitchen, reduce your footprint with each step along the food waste journey. Read this and waste less!

Bird feeding stations are, if you never seen one before, great for hanging lots of different types of bird feed/feeders and attracting a large verity of bird.

Out of all the wildlife that come and visit our garden, birds have to be the friendliest and most vocal. Checkout GardenWilds top 5 Garden Birdbaths and attract more bird to your garden.

The Hawthorn is native to northern Europe. Its berries provide food for many bird through the winter and the flowers are visited by pollinators. Its leaves are also used as food be a large diversity of butterfly and moth larvae.

The Laurel is native to southeaster Asia. It is an evergreen cherry and keeps it leaves all year round. In the UK in primarily used from hedges.

The beech is native to Europe, Asia, and North America. The main characteristic of the beech tree is that it hold on to if dead leaves. This give a beech hedge a beautiful warm feel in the winter.