Britain’s Most Beautiful Garden winner announced!
Thanks to everyone who entered our Britain’s Most Beautiful Garden competition – we have loved reading through your entries, and so has Ellen Mary! It’s never an easy decision to make when you’re judging something as subjective as ‘beauty’, but we set you all three key questions to answer...
What to consider as a long distance landlord – our tips
Being a landlord isn’t just about sorting out the finances, finding the right property and filling it with good, reliable tenants. There’s a lot more to it than that. For the long distance landlord, there are agencies, insurers and utility companies to consider. Depending on your circumstance, they...
Our tips for gardening indoors, now summer is over
With the weather turning for the year and the nights drawing in, most of us will have wrapped up the gardening for 2019 and put our plants to bed until next spring. But this doesn’t mean our horticultural hobbies must come to a halt! There are still plenty of...
6 ways to use up your homegrown fruit and vegetables
It’s Organic September this month, and what better way than to go organic than to grow your own veg? We’ve already created a guide to growing vegetables as a beginner, but what should you do with all the excess produce? Here are our top tips for putting every last...
Our eight best tips to create an eco-friendly garden!
There are many ways in which we can make the most of what nature provides us or recycle and reuse household objects in order to maintain an eco-friendly garden. We’ve created a list of our top suggestions, to get your imaginations going in the garden… 1. Collect rainwater in...
Best gardens and parks in England – and the local rental yields!
If you’re looking for a unique reason to attract tenants to your property, why not highlight the best gardens and parks nearby? There’s something peaceful and inviting about an area that is well looked after by its local authority and residents. We’re all about home gardening this month, as...
A beginner’s guide to growing veg in your garden
This week our friend Andrew, from the team at Landlord News is sharing his tips on starting a vegetable patch in your garden, what to watch out for and how to get tasty homegrown veg at the end of it. Here’s what he has to say on the subject:...
Garden furniture and features – our top choices to improve your garden
In our last article, we wrote about our favourite plants, but now we want to focus on garden furniture and features! Once everything is planted and you have a maintenance schedule in place, it’s time to look beyond the beds and think about what else you could have in...
Top ten plants to effortlessly brighten up your garden
Our Britain’s Most Beautiful Garden competition is open to all in the UK, but we particularly want to make the most of this opportunity to give landlords a helping hand with their properties. We’ve put together our top ten plants for the garden of your rental property – low...
Guest Judge for Britain’s Most Beautiful Garden Competition Announced!
Now the details have been finalised, we are happy to reveal that the guest judge for our Britain’s Most Beautiful Garden competition will be talented horticulturist Ellen Mary! As a self-proclaimed gardening, nature and wildlife addict, Ellen will be providing her expert opinion on which one of your wonderful...