Lawn edging what a dull subject to do a blog on, what on earth will I learn from that? After all it’s just shears and trim! And I would agree to a point to the above comments but like anything we do in life, there’s different ways to do things and to different standards. Everyone…
Category: Garden thoughts
Looking into May
I April is normally the month for finishing the winter works off in the garden but one of the coldest April’s since the 1960’s put and end to that. So a lot of May will be catching up on these tasks. This will be on top of normal Mays work. It’s pretty obvious that we…
The garden in April
April’s a very busy month in gardening, there is so much work to do in the garden at the moment so I thought I would put together a blog featuring some of the jobs you can be doing during this time, just to try and help you all work out how to do things within…
Evaluating your garden or continued development of your space
It’s very easy just to carry on with your garden as it is but I find at this time of year, as you clear up the borders, finish the last bit of pruning, weed out the unwanted or desired plants. It’s time to have a hard long look and think about what you have and…
6 on Saturday
6 of the best plants in flower in my garden on Saturday!
Flaming June!
The monthly thoughts of a professional gardener, well one that’s currently off sick!
Let’s not forget our heritage roses
With so many great modern roses around now it’s so easy to forget the old roses, heritage roses, so let’s have a look at why we should be growing them!
My very first tree….
The first of anything we do is always so memorable isn’t? From our first time cycling without stabilisers, first night away from the family home, first alcholic drink followed by first drink in the pub legally and of course, your first clumbsy kiss!. It’s the same for us gardeners, I can still remember the first…