Veronica Lorraine

IF you live by the sea, you’d think nothing of dragging back a bucket of bladder wrack from the beach to use as mulch on your garden. As alien as it may seem to city dwellers and their bags of bark…

Transform your garden with the power of seaweed! Four lucky winners will take home a bundle of Maxicrop to help their garden thrive all year round. The £55 bundle includes Maxicrop’s bio stimulants…

AS a gardener, you wouldn’t plant a rhododendron in chalky soil. And when it comes to clematis – it ‘roots in the shade – scrambles up to the sun’ – while roses do well in h…

Vermicomposting, the name for composting with the help of worms, is a fantastic way to recycle organic waste into nutrient-rich compost for your garden. Worm castings coming onto the market now …

WHEN octagenarian Peter Clarke’s wife passed away, he had no idea how he was going to manage the garden she’d loved so much. But thanks to new gardening network ‘WeWeed’ – which puts those wh…

WHAT with rows over ‘rewilding’ your garden, desperately searching for new drought tolerant plants, and the constant social media one-upmanship of Dahlia blooms – it’s been an interesting 202…

IT used to be that lawns were left over Winter as it would cause too much damage to mow. But with the climate as it is – although they don’t need regular tending- a lot of grass, especi…

Research has revealed that listening to the sound of natural running water boosts our mental health and reduces stress. So why not take a moment and enter our Sun Gardening competition to win a bea…

25 of the best Christmas gardening gifts under £20 – with five less than £10...

We’ve got EIGHT pairs of Buckingham Neoprone Gardening Shoes from Town and Country to give away. Perfect for all year round gardening – they’re great for those who can’t be bother…

IT’S November! Which means it’s officially Tulip Bulb Planting time. Unlike daffodils, these beauties would rather be planted in a colder soil – as the lower temperatures help reduce th…

Burgon and Ball are offering THREE lucky readers a RHS Gifts for Gardeners ‘Asteraceae’ bundle of a trowel, fork, gloves and secateurs. Each bundle is worth £68.47 and is perfect for the gardener i…

HAVE you heard of Storage Tomatoes you can keep for months and eat fresh over the Winter? Or black carrots, purple cauliflower and pink celery?  The world of gardening is expanding daily ̵…

TWO lucky readers can take home a Cobra leaf blower worth £119 each. It’s a great little helper when you want to clear all the leaves from your outside space and you can’t face raking i…

“WHEN you see the manta ray, you need to jump off the boat and swim really fast behind me,” the guide explained, to my two wide-eyed daughters. “I am a very quick swimmer, so you’ll just have to ke…

WHEN Chris Bonnett was a teenager, his sixth form business studies project was to see if a new phenomenon called ‘the internet’ could be used to sell plants.  Fast forward 25 years and his mai…

KEN Crowther is a man on a mission. Seven years ago he set up World Radio Gardening – and at the age of 76, there’s still no stopping him.  He started out  with his own landscaping …

ONE lucky Sun Gardening reader can win a £200 YouGarden voucher to spend at the online garden centre The online garden centre, offers a huge range of plants, trees and shrubs, roses and bulbs. And …

ONE lucky gardener will win an Autumn gardening bundle worth over £500.  Husqvarna Aspire Battery Pruning Saw worth £279 and a leaf blower worth over £319 – which comes with a …

HE is a man you may recognise from his Gardeners’ World debut on TV last year. But Gardeners’ Question Time regular Ashley Edwards’ full-time job is horticultural therapist at Horatio’s Garden in t…