Sitemap - 2024 - The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

Do you still have a pile of bulbs waiting to be planted?

A Winter's Tale - if you ever need reminding why you garden, read this

A last-minute Christmas lucky dip, with madrigals: a container idea for a winter doorstep, how to care for amaryllis and a Cheat Sheet

The New Romantic Garden

What to do in your garden in December, a tractor parade, and how to eat your Christmas tree

Small Garden Design - Week 6

The Gardening Mind is 3 today 🎂

Pots, amaryllis and Christmas puddings

Small Garden Design - Week 5

Gifts that gardeners REALLY want. Plus: easy November container designs

Small Garden Design - Week 4

The Solace of Gardening

Small Garden Design - Week 3

Garden Essentials: How to make leaf mould - it's way sexier than you'd imagine

Small Garden Design - Week 2

What to do and what not to do in your garden in November. Plus: gardening in your nightie

Strong Beauty

NEWS ‼️ I'm returning to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, with a garden for The Glasshouse

Small Garden Design - Week 1

The Small Garden Design Course

Digging Around with Willow Crossley

The Books that Make Us

Bare root roses - it's the most wonderful time of the year

Bulb meadows and how to make them

How to make your garden look good in October, small garden design, and some MORE news

A green gem in the heart of the city

What to do in your garden in October

The Dutch competition to green gardens and streets

NEWS‼️ The Small Garden Design Course - this course is BACK and is starting again this autumn

Live with The Gardening Mind

Gardening in autumn - a new mindset

Forest bathing in the middle of the city

The New Romantic Garden

Going live later

Garden design challenges: how to deal with sloping gardens

Polly Nicholson at Gravetye Manor

Pears, tarts and Instapastry

Essential gardening tips and tricks - Storecupboard basics 3

Easy plants which make an impact in September

What's the thing you've always dreamed of doing?

Back to school haircuts, a recipe for an Instagarden, and a Zoom

Everyone’s telling us to order tulip bulbs, but can you hold your nerve?

Good and bad dahlias: an easy guide to five of the best - and worst

If you don't like yellow in the garden, read on....

Do you have an oddly-shaped garden? A triangular-ish space? An awkward front garden? No back garden? A small garden? Tiny budget?

"I kid you not, the scent is even better than roses"

How to make a resilient gravel garden, easily

Not enough time to water your pots and containers?

Need more basil in your life?

Garden design challenges: easy ways to deal with a wide and shallow garden

Is your garden in need of an August boost?

Garden Essentials : Compost

Digging Around with Tom Cox

The easiest way to make your garden look even prettier, and the life-enhancing concept of Substantial Snacks

The essential list: plants which will survive everything the weather throws at them

How to choose the right plants for your border, and my secret trick in planting design

Digging Around with JP Clark

Demystifying judging as we look at the Hampton Court fabulous show features. Plus: the flower border design course continues

Gardener's Question Time, a magical moment at Sissinghurst, and two HUGE gardening revelations

Garden design challenges: easy ways to deal with a shady garden

Create the ultimate garden prettiness with easy plants and fuss-free plant pairings. Also: Elton John's garden and gondolier's underpants

How to choose plants for your flowerbeds and borders

Garden design challenges: how to create privacy from neighbours

How to design a flowerbed - making it easy

The best plant supports to buy - do it now!

How to make your garden look great in June, and a new planting design course

It’s Gardener’s Question Time

Digging Around with Hazel Gardiner

First glimpses from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The top 100 plants for your garden, and how to do the 'Chelsea Chop'

What I've bought for my garden this weekend. Plus: Part 2 of building a Chelsea Flower Show

How to build a show garden - an insider's view into designing and building a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

How to design a small garden - the big reveal as we reach the end of this series

How the Book Club works

The best wisteria for your garden, and a visit to a very secret garden in Venice

Digging Around with Sean Anthony Pritchard

Small Garden Design - how to choose your garden style

It's Gardener's Question Time

What to plant in your garden right now for later summer colour

Digging Around with Alice Vincent

How to buy the best plants at a garden centre, the Small Garden Design course is back, and seven ways to beat slugs

An Easter cake recipe and baby bluetits

An easy recipe for a vegetable bed, and the best cherry blossom

How to choose the best magnolias for your garden, and my Top 100 romantic plants

Flowerbed and flower border planting design

Cheery Spring thoughts, daffodils and the power of yellow (even if you think you don't like it)

FINALLY, we get to see what the wearer of the AR goggles can see

Small Garden Design - deciding what goes where

The Top 50 best roses for cut flowers

Digging Around with Leyla Kazim

How to make a beautiful garden

Small Garden Design Course: how to join in this course at any time. For any size of garden, this is an easy design course which will help you create your dream garden

Why we garden

How to choose Spring bulbs and other spring favourites for your pots next year

Garden design principles - how to use them in your own garden. Plus: How to Garden in February

Small garden design course - Task 1

Digging Around with India Knight

Where to start, literally where to start, with a garden design

Ask me Anything

Small Garden Design - where to start with your garden design

How to design show gardens and small gardens

"Baby it's cold outside"

Ask Me Anything

Romantic gardens - how to create the magic