Longacres Blog

Making your own cress head at home is a fun and inexpensive way to get kids involved in gardening! Here is our step by step guide for you to try it at home.

Everyone is talking about the benefit of growing houseplants for health! We all have room for at least a few houseplants, which not only “green up” any room, but also help keep the atmosphere clean. Here are our top 10 houseplants for healthier air quality at home.

Join us at our Bagshot store for our Create A Mini Garden Half Term events! This is a special event for children running throughout the May holidays. They will get the chance to create their own miniature garden to take home with them.

This is the best time for summer bedding plants as they’ll give you maximum flowering from now right through until the first frosts of autumn. Why not plant your own hanging baskets or containers with an array of colourful plants in a colour scheme, or mix and match trailing and upright plants for a fantastic show this summer?

Purchase selected New Original Kettle, New Master-Touch, Master-Touch Premium, Genesis II, Spirit II, Summit Gas or Summit Charcoal Weber barbecues between the 2nd May 2019 and the 30th June 2019 and you will be eligible for a FREE Weber poultry roaster!

Fancy being in with a chance of winning £50 worth of Longacres vouchers? To enter, all you need to do is head to your local Longacres Garden Centre Facebook page and let us know how you’d spend the voucher and what improvements you’d make to your garden!

This month there’s so much going on in the garden, it’s a job to know where to start! May is a peak time for planning and planting your summer bedding scheme, and continuing to tend to all that’s growing rapidly in the lovely late spring sunshine.

For all you early birds out there, we have an excellent offer running on Monday 7th May 2018 and Monday 28th May 2018; you can save a massive 10% off* in store at our Bagshot, Bybrook Barn and Shepperton branches!

The following only affects nationwide deliveries that do not contain flowers. Any local deliveries are also unaffected due to our own fleet of vehicles which handle the immediate areas.

For all you early birds out there, we have an egg-cellent (pun intended) offer running on Good Friday (19th April 2019) and Easter Monday (22nd April 2019); you can save a massive 10% off* in store at our Bagshot, Bybrook Barn and Shepperton branches!

Use the following table to apply Viano Lawn Care Products with a Viano lawn spreader. This guide will tell you which settings to use to apply at the correct rate.

Use the following table to apply Scotts (Evergreen) Lawn Care Products with a Scotts (Evergreen) lawn spreader. This guide will tell you which settings to use to apply at the correct rate.