Roses are the garden plant that everyone loves and spends their time trying to get the best from them! I’m no different, I have had a love affair with them for over 40yrs now, growing up in the gardens of Mottisfont certainly installs that love into you, just though their complete magic Roses aren’t hard…
Category: pest and dieseases
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…
Boxwood Moth and European Buxus and Topiary society
Looking at new monitoring and treatment of the boxtree moth that feeds on Buxus
The curse of the rose sawfly
My latest blog looks at the damage this rose pest can do, watch for and treat it
Box blight- Managing and living with it
blog looking at preventing and managing box blight in the garden.
Treating rose leaf diseases
I do a lot of garden visits to clients houses and also a lot talks to all types of groups and the biggest rose question is of course how do I stop black spot and mildew on my roses. Trouble is it’s a not a short answer! First of all what exactly are we…