The best websites for gardeners

Get everything you need for your garden without even leaving the house

www.gardeningdirect.com

Gardening Direct offers a huge range of great-value, top-quality bedding plants, perennials and indoor plants, all grown under greenhouse conditions. The website also sells fruit and veg plants and vegetable seeds.

www.englishplants.co.uk

The English Cottage Garden Nursery grows a wide variety of wildflowers, herbs and cottage plants in organic peat-free compost. The wildflowers will attract wildlife to your garden and create a haven for bees, birds, butterflies and small mammals.

www.crocus.co.uk

Crocus sells a whopping choice of 4,000 different plants. And, if you're searching for a specific tool, they'll source it if they don't sell it. If you're after gardening advice, you can even email their resident plant doctors.

www.henandhammock.co.uk

Hen & Hammock is the place to shop for an eco-friendly garden. There's furniture made from reclaimed teak, planters made from recycled tyres and natural soaps and organic creams to clean and repair your hands after gardening.

www.theurbangarden.co.uk

The Urban Garden has products with a contemporary edge, including imaginative planters, sleek designer furniture, brilliant barbecues and stylish lighting. It has practical items, too, like the Love'Em and Leave'Em jute sack, £2.50, for creating nutritional leaf mould ready for use.

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