Stephanie's Garden Blog

Pests and diseases account for a large percentage of plant failures in the kitchen garden and ornamental border so accurately diagnosing who and what is munching or afflicting your plants is essential - and that's where Harrod Horticultural, in league with pest expert Gavin Hatt can help.

There's no need to extend or move house this summer if you want more space as it's often said that the garden is an outdoor living room - and with a 116-page new catalogue jam packed with products to help you make the most of summer in the garden, Harrod Horticultural will have you beaming!

There's no need to extend or move house this summer if you want more space as it's often said that the garden is an outdoor living room - and with a 116-page new catalogue jam packed with products to help you make the most of summer in the garden, Harrod Horticultural will have you beaming!

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

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.

The barn owl is one of Britains' best loved birds and is currently the focus of a joint project to both increase numbers and provide nesting boxes across Eastern England.

We've mentioned before just how many gardeners rate slugs as their biggest garden enemy - and now is the time to start your defence in earnest.

Have you been watching Alan Titchmarsh's latest offering on BBC TV - 'The Nature of Britain'?

A quick rummage around a typical gardener's shed will uncover various forms of derris, the well-known organic insecticide - but all that is set to change next year with the proposed outlawing of the product. Martin Fiddes explains more...