Stephanie's Garden Blog

A Norfolk stately home and a Suffolk mail order gardening product supplier and manufacturer may seem unlikely partners but with their new Royal Horticultural Society endorsed Garden Arch range proving the catalyst, Harrod Horticultural and Hoveton Hall have joined forces in a truly symbiotic relationship...

Hot on the heels (almost) of his national newspaper writing debut, Harrod Horticultural company horticulturist Martin Fiddes has made the headlines again as his article on growing herbs in the kitchen appeared in the April 11th edition of top selling tabloid the Daily Express!

Versatile is a term often bandied about when it comes to describing garden equipment but in the case of Harrod Horticultural's Slot and Lock? connector and crop protection cage range, it's a title well merited.

Summer is the season for growing fresh fruit and vegetables in abundance - and it really doesn't matter if you've got little or no space as our patio growing press release shows.

Easter is traditionally the time of year when gardens - and gardeners - spring into life as warmer weather, longer days and a couple of bank holidays all combine to point us in the direction of the outdoors; and with 116 pages of top quality and incredibly diverse gardening products in the form of the Harrod Horticultural Spring Catalogue on hand to help, spring 2012 promises to be a gardening season to remember

With 157,000 visitors passing through the gates each year, a heritage and history as rich as any and a reputation for gardening excellence around the world, the Royal Horticultural Society?s Chelsea Flower Show is a pivotal event in the gardening calendar ? and for the 10th year running, Lowestoft ?based Harrod Horticultural will be there!

Our Budding Gardeners initiative has always proved extremely popular with schools of all sizes benefitting from our gardening knowledge, factsheets, lesson plans, expert support - and of course the 20% discount we offer! But now we've taken the project a step further by teaming up with the Memory4teachers Campaign, compacting our Budding Gardeners site onto a fully interactive memory stick.

As the garden prepares to burst into life, you can be sure that the local pest population is slowly stretching, stirring and sleepily emerging from winter hibernation too with rumbling stomachs and big plans on how to fill them - all involving your plants

The Royal Horticultural Society's Lawrence Hall in London was the venue for the 2012 Garden Press Event - an annual event which represents the perfect way to banish the winter gardening blues and get the lowdown on what's new in gardening. Our horticulturist Martin Fiddes sends this report...