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…
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Straightening and levelling off of box hedging
A guide on how to straighten and level off low hedges like box, yew
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…
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
Pruning Rosa Rugosa roses
Rosa rugosa group of roses are some of the hardest, toughest roses that we can grow here in the uk. They take north, south, east and west facing sites. Most soil types apart from very waterlogged soils, indeed, they will grow quite happily in pure sand on the high tide mark on the beach! They…
Opening of the first one!
The delight of the first rose opening
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
6 on Saturday 9/12/2017s
My 6 on Saturday comes to you from The Eden Project in Cornwall! I spent an enjoyable day walki;g around there during the week before a talk in Cornwall
Plant of the week- Betula albosinensis ‘Bowling Green’
My Plant of the week is the most beautiful Betula albosinensis ‘Bowling Green’