Gardening School
Articles with tips, advice, and lots of inspiration in gardening
Here we share tips, advice, and inspiration about cultivation from all the experience we have at Florea and our ambassadors. When it comes to cultivation, you never really stop learning, it’s always a fantastic journey for new experiences. One year, spring comes early, the next it arrives late, the third year there are extra many killer slugs, and the fourth year we get no rain. What we’re saying is that no year is the same as the other, and growing zones don’t have to be set in stone.
Our motto is that a seed always wants to sprout and it’s okay if you fail. Even the most experienced do not always succeed with their cultivation, and that’s how it will always be. Sometimes, it’s not the result that’s most important, but the journey there. Welcome to read our articles to get tips, advice, and also be inspired about what new things you should try this year?
Growing Ball Chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum)
Cushion chrysanthemums bring colour late in the season, often right into November. Here's how to plant, water and care for them – in a pot or in the border.
Growing Aronia
Aronia is a tough berry shrub that gives you both beautiful autumn colour and genuinely healthy fruit. Here's help with varieties, planting, care and harvest.
Rowan tree
Rowan offers creamy white flower clusters, glowing berries and blazing autumn colour – and asks for almost no care. Here's how to choose, plant and look after one.
Grow Black-eyed Susan Vine
Black-eyed Susan vine climbs fast and flowers all summer in orange, yellow and white. Here's help with sowing, pots, hanging baskets and climbing supports.
Grow Cloudberries
The gold of the forest really can be grown in a garden – if you build a wet, acidic bog bed that mimics the marsh. Here's help with soil, plant choice and care.
Autumn Anemone
As late summer turns to autumn, the Japanese anemone takes over and flowers right up to the first frost. Here's how to plant and care for it year after year.
Grow Blackberries
A single blackberry bush can give you sweet fruit for 15–20 years. Here's help with position, trellising, pruning and knowing when the berries are ripe.
Plums
A plum tree gives you both beautiful spring blossom and a juicy late-summer harvest. Here's help with planting, soil, pruning, pollination and the best varieties for a cool climate.
Blueberries
Blueberries are as rewarding in the garden as in the forest – as long as the soil is acidic enough. Here we cover the best varieties, planting in beds and pots, care and harvesting.
Growing Courgettes
Courgette, or zucchini, is one of the most rewarding vegetables in the garden – fast-growing, versatile and incredibly generous. Here's how to succeed from seed to harvest.
Sea buckthorn
Salt-tolerant, wind-hardy, super healthy and almost self-sufficient – sea buckthorn thrives even in exposed coastal positions. Here's how to plant and care for the bushes for a generous harvest of orange vitamin berries.
Autumn Sowing
Autumn sowing is the easiest way to get a head start on next season. Here is when to sow, how to do it step by step, and which vegetables and flowers can overwinter in the soil.
Gardening Is Easy
Growing is sometimes made out to be difficult and time-consuming. In reality all you need is a few seeds and somewhere to put them. Here's how to start.
Pests and diseases
Aphids, thrips, powdery mildew and grey mould can quickly put the tomato harvest at risk. Here we go through the most common pests and diseases – and what to do about them.
Quality Of Dahlia Tubers
Dahlia tubers look different from one variety to the next, and a dry or small tuber says very little about the plant it will produce. Here's why.
Grow Anemone
What is an Anemone and how do I grow it? Anemones grow from tubers or corms (sometimes this varies depending on the variety), which remain dormant until it is time...