Longacres Blog

What a bumper month June is for the garden. Plants are rapidly growing in ideal temperatures and its hard to keep up with all the jobs that need to be done. Here’s the lowdown on what to do.

Join us at Longacres Bybrook barn for loads of fun free craft demonstrations coming up in 2019! Take a look at our blog for more details.

This National Children's Gardening Week we are offering your child's school the chance to win a HUGE Woodlodge pot and £50 worth of Longacres vouchers to help fill it to the brim with beautiful plants!

Find all National Gardening Week characters in store at Longacres Bagshot and you could win one of three £10 Longacres vouchers up for grabs! Take a look around the store and see what you can find!

Keeping a pet dandelion is a great way to show children the cycle from growing flowers all the way to turning into seeds. This is also a great way to teach them about taking care of a potted plant of their own.

A sunflower is a great way to get children into gardening. They’re simple to grow and the results are normally mind-bogglingly tall plants (especially for the little ones) Here is our handy guide on how to grow sunflowers with you kids

What’s your favourite herb? From coriander to basil, mint to thyme – growing your own is much cheaper than buying from the supermarket, and it is great to experiment with different flavours! Here is handy guide to growing herbs.

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!