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The Arundel castle was built by one of William the Conqueror’s most loyal followers, Roger de Montgomery, in 1068 to secure the area around the river Arun. The original fortification consisted of a wooden fortified motte, or mound. This was later increased by the addition of two baileys, as the castle’s fortifications were increased and improved. The castle stayed in the hands of Roger de Montgomery’s family until 1102, when it was besieged by followers of King Henry I and reverted to the Crown. More

One of the gardens you can visit using our new garden tours service 

Garden Tour Holiday Service. For £125, GardenAdvice will organise your holiday tour of some of the most desirable and interesting gardens in the British Isles.  Based on your proposed holiday dates and budget, our team will plan your itinerary from start to finish.  All we ask is that you tell us your:  More 

Today we have started a new section aimed at providing horticultural businesses with advice on a range of subjects such as internet marketing and funding. The first two articles are on Invoice Discounting and Factoring for horticultural businesses. Over the next few weeks we will be adding additional articles and services More

Summer is well under way and it’s time to consider sowing a number of early summer vegetable crops. Get all the information you need by following our vegetable calendar and crop guides. New additions to the guide include -

Kohi Rabi

Swiss chard

Florence fennel

chicory

Although not strictly gardening books the Philips guides are a useful source of information to all gardeners. The GardenAdvice team have just finished reviewing the Philips guide to wildflowers and the Philips guide to birds. Both guide books are very useful in the identification of wildflowers and birds in the garden and will make a welcome addition to any gardener’s library. To read the full reviews follow the links in our gardening books review section

Until the end of July anyone who signs up for the GardenAdvice MyGardenTeam offer will be sent a Hamlyn book called Bug slugs and other invaders. It’s a very small book with loads of great information on how to control a number of garden pests, from aphids to cats, organically.

The aim of the MyGardenTeam service is to provide you with your own on line gardening expert in the form of a GardenAdvice gardener, to help you plan a year’s gardening with lots of back up with advice, online calendars, useful contacts and in garden assistance if you need it. More

Gardeners’ World host Monty Don has suffered a stroke and will stand down from his TV presenting duties, the BBC has said.

The 52-year-old has been off the show for several weeks after suffering a “minor stroke”.

In a statement the BBC said the presenter was making “a good recovery”.

Don - who has presented the the popular BBC Two show since 2003 - said he was taking time off over the summer to make a full recovery. More

The GardenAdvice team would like to take this opportunity to wish Monty Don a full speedy recovery and we look forward to his return in the future to Gardeners’ World.
Since taking on the main presenting post on the BBC Gardeners’ World program Monty Don has proved to be a worthy choice by the BBC to follow in the footsteps of Alan Titchmarsh, the former presenter.
He has provided many hours of first class entertainment to many gardening enthusiasts in both the UK and around the world

Sometimes, it’s just no fun being a gardener: all those aphids, slugs and
other pests waiting to destroy your hard work and efforts. However, that
could all change if you read a book that landed on our review desk a few weeks ago.
Bugs, slugs and other invaders: 50 ways to beat them, published by Hamlyn -
one of the smallest gardening books you will every come across more

5 free garden design books to give away

Garden Design Details is a visual sourcebook of inspiration for your garden. Arne Maynard is a successful garden designer, who offers useful and practical advice in the book for every type of garden, explaining the practicalities as well as the aesthetics of materials and structures. It includes 350 detailed colour photographs, providing readers with inspiration and ideas for their own gardens. More

New Kitchen Garden calendar

Launching soon our new kitchen garden calendar, designed to inform you when to sow your vegetable seeds. Viewable on the GardenAdvice.co.uk web site and available as a Google calendar download that can be set up to automatically update a desktop calendar over the internet, the system is updated every week to keep you informed about the tasks you should be carrying out including sowing crops every week. More