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Monthly Archives: December 2025

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Growing Your Garden Confidence

by Ciaran Biggins / on 12th December 2025 / in Blog, Gardens, Tips

Five tips to boost your gardening confidence

If you often find yourself looking at your garden and thinking “I’m not sure what I should be doing or how to do it correctly,” you’re not alone. The new RHS State of Gardening Report recently revealed that while 34 million people in the UK garden regularly, only 27% feel confident doing it.

We see this “garden confidence gap” all the time. People who care about their gardens but worry about pruning too hard, choosing the wrong plants or not knowing where to start. With the new Oxfordshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy encouraging residents to support wildlife and plant more sustainably, even well-informed gardeners often say they feel overwhelmed.

But don’t despair! Confidence can grow quickly with the right guidance. Here are five simple ways you can grow your gardening confidence.

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Why Your Garden Matters

by Ciaran Biggins / on 10th December 2025 / in Blog, environment, garden design, Gardens, Wildlife

If you’re reading this, it’s safe to assume that your garden matters to you. Whether it represents a lifetime of hard work and dedication, a weekend retreat or a space to enjoy with the family, it makes a positive difference to you. But have you ever thought of your garden as being part of something bigger? Something with more power, more potential and more ecological value than you might think.

Your garden is an important part of a wider, living network that supports wildlife, improves resilience, stores carbon and contributes to the health of the environment around us. Even small decisions made in a single garden can have a real impact.

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