Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Gardening tips for beginners: avoiding common garden mistakes

With lockdown turning so many of us turning into budding gardeners, YouTube gardening guru Charles Dowding reveals the best gardening tips for beginners.

8 design tricks to bring natural light into your home

From curtains to decluttering and mirrored furniture, here are 8 clever design hacks to bring more natural light into your home for a more airy feel.

10 most common garden birds in the UK – how many...

We’ve rounded up 10 of the most common garden birds you’re likely to spot in your garden or outside your window, along with how to spot and identify them.

How to get get rid of 3 common garden weeds

These 3 common garden weeds are the bane of gardeners’ lives – but there are ways to eradicate bindweed, ground elder and couch grass.

Nightmare neighbours? How to avoid and deal with neighbour disputes

Living next door doesn’t mean you’ll always get on, but nobody wants a stressful fall-out with their neighbours. Here's how to avoid a neighbour dispute.

How to style a small garden, balcony or outside space

Only got a dinky yard or balcony? You can still transform it into a dream garden or outdoor room as award-winning designer Ula Maria tells Wise Living.

Home workspace design ideas – 7 tips for decorating your home...

Looking for home workspace design ideas? Here are 7 simple steps for creating a stylish – and productive – workspace at home so you can get the job done.

How to create a therapeutic garden to boost wellbeing

Interested in creating a therapeutic garden? Award-winning garden designer Matt Keightley reveals how to make your own outdoor space more soothing.

Garden shed ideas – how to transform a garden shed in...

Do you have an old shed (or even a relatively new one) quietly rotting away at the bottom of your garden? It may be...

Seaside garden ideas – how to create your own coastal garden

Here’s a whole collection of seaside garden ideas, as well as advice for how to create your own coastal garden and choose the right plants that will thrive.