Author: thomashort

I am a professional gardener who has a love of plants and gardens. I grew up and worked at Mottisfont Abbey Gardens, with a spell at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and managering two gardens in Hampshire and West Sussex as Head Gardener. I am now freelance and spend my time gardening, pruning, planting design, consultanting, speaking and blogging about plants and gardens. I love all forms of gardening but have a soft spot for roses, Geraniums, alpines and Topiary. That said, I love it all!

Plant of the year in 2017 was………

Well I have done the maths, crunched the numbers and had a recount, yes it was just 1 vote in it, that was all! Before announcing the winner, I would like to thank you all for taking part in this fun vote, there was nearly 1000 votes placed, Thank you all very much! Right and…

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6 on Saturday 30/12/17

My 6 on Saturday this week is a look back at some of my personal favourites though this great meme

Plant of the year!

Well it’s your chance to vote for the plant if the year from my weekly plant

Six on Saturday- 23/12/17

A Christmasy six on Saturday looking at some of the plants we use in our homes at Christmas time!

Cutting back Hellebores

A brief step by step guide to pruning back the foliage on Hellebores, what ones it works on and why we do it