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…
Category: Planting
Dividing ferns
Dividing plants in our gardens is an excellent and cost effective way of increasing our stock of an existing group of plants. For herbaceous plants, most people are used to using the method of diversion to increase their stocks but when it comes to ferns, they are too sure what to do So here’s a…
Dividing and maintaining bearded iris
How to divide and look after bearded Irises
Moving self seeded plants
If you like me grow herbaceous plants amongst your roses, there comes a time with the self seeders that you need to take action and move them. Sometimes they grow at the base of the rose and this isn’t a good thing. It reduces the new growth the roses put on at the base throughout…
Planting in dry conditions – puddling, sometimes old ways are best!
Wondered what the best way of planting in dry soil, well give this method ago
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…
Having fun with alpines
Using broken pots to create a home for alpines
Under planting roses part 1, the reasoning behind its
My first part of a two part series looking at underplanting roses, in this part I am looking at the theory of it
Planting bareroot roses
A look at planting new and transplanted bare root roses, just at the time the season starts