Gardening

Muddy ‘Lockdown Gardens in Bloom’ is GO!

Calling all green fingered goddesses! We want to see your lockdown gardening handiwork. Snap your space and post it on Instagram for the chance to win vouchers (there's £1000 up for grabs) to spend online at gorgeous garden and homewares boutique Olive & Sage.
Summer is here. Get ready to BBQ in style!

Muddy chats to fabulous designer Saffron Knight for some home styling tips
Pimp your patio with these 18 outdoor buys

We’re swapping holidays abroad for le jardín this summer, so best make it the ultimate destination. Cue the Muddy shopping edit of the coolest accessories to deck out your outdoor space.
10 idiot-proof veg to grow now

(Or how not to get scurvy during lockdown). Here's how to go self-sufficient, thanks to TV gardener Toby Buckland's top veg patch tips. Ready the trowels!
Best gardening books

Fancy getting all green fingered in the garden but don't really know where to start? Here are 10 gardening books to help out.
8 flowers to choose for a cutting garden

Dibbers at the ready! Garden broadcaster Toby Buckland picks a pocketful of posies that anyone - yes, even you with the dead house plants - can grow.
The garden as gallery

Unique and unusual furniture and deco for inside the home – and out – at the 31st Bath Decorative Antiques Fair coming to Bath (natch), in March. And we've free tickets for you all!
Feb gardening tips

No idea whether to mulch, prune or - goddamit - both?! The Top 5 things to do in your garden this month to get it into tip top shape for Spring.
Gardening for Dummies

Sow, mow, rake! Easy tips to keep your garden in shape throughout October - no experience required...
Gardening div? We’ve got tips for you

Love gardening but it's a jungle out there? Grab the secateurs and read our top summer tips
Joe Swift’s Gardening Jobs for Dummies

TV presenter, author and gardener Joe Swift gives Muddy Somerset's editor Sue some Spring Gardening Tips for Dummies. Off you go Joe, and no tea and biccies for you till you’ve sorted out my mossy overgrowth.
Wouldn’t you though?

I sometimes ponder investing in art to hang on my walls but somehow don’t tend to think about my garden in the same way. However the stunning work of local sculptor David Harber might just change that. I can’t stop gazing at my elegant new buddy, Bud, with its bronze leaves and mirrored stainless steel stamen inside – let’s just say any child who mistook this objet d’art for a new climbing frame on the Muddy lawn wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.