Vertical Gardening at Avant Home and Garden Centre
Vertical gardening is an incredible way to add a new dimension to gardening. We are all familiar with beautifully maintained lawns, stunning borders and pots or baskets adorned with gorgeous…
Beginners Guide to Lawn Care
We have a vast range of lawn care products in store at Avant Home and Garden Centre, but if you’re new to gardening or perhaps have a new garden that means…
Encouraging Bees into Your Garden
The decline of our pollinator population is something that everyone should be concerned about. Modern farming practices and a lack of flowering plants/nesting spots mean that it’s getting more and more…
Plant Spotlight: Hydrangeas
Loved for their gorgeous blooms and appreciated for their ability to flourish in shade or shine, hydrangeas are a garden staple. Hydrangeas are hardy and resistant to most garden pests…
Wabi-sabi – The Relaxed Approach to Gardening
Maintaining a garden can be overwhelming – the pressure to have a perfect lawn, immaculate borders and not a weed in sight…it can feel like an elite club where only…
Biological Control with Nematodes
April is a good time to check your boundary hedges and border plants for any signs of pest activity and then take serious action. Watch out for Vine Weevil! Tell…
Easter Opening Times
An early Easter is almost upon us so if you’re planning an Easter Tree to place your Easter eggs under, we have everything you might want to decorate it with.…
Effects of the Beast from the East on Leyland and the North West
What is being described as a “shock weather front” seems to have sent the rest of the country into complete panic stations. What on earth is going on? In Chorley…
Perfect Day to make your Patio Perfect
You know there are just some spells of decent weather that are perfectly timed with your day off – and today is one of them. It’s a “make it, do…
Metaldehyde is still available – just
The dry spring/summer of 2017 may have seen off the attack of slugs and snails temporarily but the wet weather throughout November, December and January combined with the lack of…