Expert Gardening Advice:

Here's a host of useful and valuable gardening information and hints and tips for 'Grow Your Own' gardeners everywhere.  Please use the links below to view some of the expert resources  available to Harrod Horticultural customers...

1. Resident Gardening Experts

Our resident gardening experts, Martin Fiddes and Julian Ives can advise you on a wide range of horticultural topics - just check out the links below to find out more:



Ask the Expert  to ask one of our resident experts a question or to view a selection of their     previous questions and answers which may also prove helpful to you

Garden Forum  where you can view some topical articles and customer comments on the Harrod Horticultural weblog


2. Celebrity Gardening Advice

Articles from our Celebrities which we have been published via our e-newsletter, are now available here for you to read online...


Ann Somerset Miles is our new ‘food and cookery’ expert. She is passionate about the rural economy and gardening, fresh slow food and cooking (‘grow, cook, eat’), and supporting local enterprises...

 Find out more about Ann Somerset Miles

                        Read - Tasty Jams and Chutney

Helen Yemm is primarily a muddy-gloves-and-wellies gardener, probably best known for her weekly Telegraph Gardening ‘Thorny Problems’ column. Taking up gardening in her 30’s, she is proudly self-taught, although she acknowledges a great debt to her academic botanist parents, themselves excellent and knowledgeable gardeners...

 Find out more about Helen Yemm   

                        Read - Composting
                        Read - Patio Gardening
 
Matthew Wilson joined Harlow Carr in February 2004 as Head of Site and Curator, having previously been the Curator of RHS Garden Hyde Hall for four years. Despite vowing not to follow the family tradition (his parents ran a nursery in a small village in Kent), Matthew has now become a respected voice within the horticultural field

 Find out more about Matthew Wilson

                        Read - Crop Protection
                        Read - Raised Bed Gardening
                        Read - Choosing the Right Tools

 
Passionate, inspiring and hugely informed Chris Beardshaw is emerging as one of the leading lights in the world of gardening both as a television presenter and ambassador – breathing new life into the industry with his unique blend of skills and qualifications which embrace planting, garden design and landscape architecture

Find out more about Chris Beardshaw

                       Read - Pest Control

                       Read - Beneficial Insects
                       Read - Fruit Pressing and Harvesting

After a music career which spanned two decades, Kim’s love for gardening   began to exert more influence in her life in the early 1990’s when she returned to Hertfordshire and embarked upon renovating a 16th Century barn. Participation in a horticultural course at Capel Manor whilst pregnant with her son Harry, now 11 further fuelled her interest and what began as perhaps an ambitious attempt to provide fresh fruit and vegetables for her family... 
                      
                       Find out more about Kim Wilde

                        Read - Composting
                        Read - Children's Gardening
                        Read - Watering

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