Plant care and advice
Hardy Palms
Hardy palms care guide
Hardy palms are invaluable as structural plants in tropical-style gardens and look effective when planted with bananas, bamboos and New Zealand flax.
Frequently asked questions
If you want to know more, we’ve selected the top questions our customers are asking about hardy palms.
Ground ferns
Ground ferns care guide
Ground ferns are an extremely diverse category of plants that have survived since the age of dinosaurs.
Frequently asked questions
If you want to know more, we’ve selected the top questions our customers are asking about ground ferns.
Tree Ferns
Tree ferns care guide
The soft tree ferns are part of a group of about 25 species, spread mostly in the Southern hemisphere.
Frequently asked questions
If you want to know more, we’ve selected the top questions our customers are asking about tree ferns.
Olive Trees
Olive Trees care guide
Among the oldest cultivated trees in the world, the olive tree is a great addition to any garden. Growing well both in pots and in the ground, even in poor or stony soil.
Woolly Aphids on Olives
Find out more about this common pest.
Keeping an olive tree as an indoor plant
While olive trees are revered for their symbolism, historical significance, and culinary value, they are not suitable for long-term indoor cultivation.
Frequently asked questions
If you want to know more, we’ve selected the top questions our customers are asking about olive trees.
Bamboo
Bamboo care guide
Bamboo is a wonderful, fast growing grass that will create an instant backdrop in your garden, a privacy screen or a hedge.
All about Phyllostachys bamboo
Everything you need to know before choosing this popular screening plant.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you want to know more, we’ve selected the top questions our customers are asking about bamboo.
Cycads
Cycads care guide
Cycad plants are hardy, evergreen gymnosperms (cone-bearing plants) that grow in sand or hard, rocky soil.
Banana plants
Hardy banana plants
Hardy banana plants care guide
Hardy bananas are usually cultivated for their impressive size and fast growing habit. They manage in a single season to go from a bare stalk to a lush clump of massive leaves.
Indoor banana plants
Indoor banana plants care guide
The species of bananas that are suited for indoor use are dwarf varieties of the tropical species that actually make your everyday bananas.
Bird of paradise plants
Bird of paradise plants care guide
The Bird of Paradise always makes a statement and the ultimate magnificence of a mature plant will command attention above everything around it.
Houseplant Care & Advice
Here are some useful guides for your houseplants
Prayer plants care guide
Calathea plants are part of a family called Marantaceae which contains about 50 species, and dozens of cultivars.
Why are my plants crying?
Ever wondered why some houseplants appear to drip water from their leaves?
Root Pruning
Discover more about this horticultural practice.
Peace Lilies
All you need to know about Spathiphyllum.