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…
Tag: Propagation
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
Making wooden seed trays
Using old pallets to make seed trays
Having fun with alpines
Using broken pots to create a home for alpines
Propagating dogwoods/Cornus from waste pruning
Pruned your dogwood but what to do with all the old prunings?
Dalefoot composts, the seed trial is starting
A look at the Dalefoot composts and in particular the seed sowing mix and see how I get on with it
Plant of the Week-Acer griseum
My plant of the week this week is one of my favourite trees, Acer Griseum, findout a bit more about it and how to grow it in my handy plant of the week
Plant of the week: Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’
A look at another beautiful winter shrub, one that gives us catkins for many months as well as being a great shrub, learn how to care for as well as how to propagate it
Mistletoe and how to grow it
A look into the folk law and unusual habits of the mistletoe plant
Thomas Stone MCI Hort MPGCA 