A guide on how to straighten and level off low hedges like box, yew
Tag: pruning plants
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 and maintaining bearded iris
How to divide and look after bearded Irises
Training tomato’s
How to get the best from your cordon type tomatoes
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…
Dead heading and summer pruning on roses
A brief look at summer pruning of roses and how to do it
Plant of the week- Camellia x williamsii ‘J C Williams’
The very beautiful camellia x williamsii ‘WC Williams’ is one of the first of the williamsii hybrids to flower and indeed the very first Camellia x williamsii hybrid bred
Pegging down roses
Always wondered how to get those lovely arching displays of roses and what roses work well? Well here’s my brief look on how to do it
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
Pruning Wisteria
A look at pruning wisterias and how to train them to get the best from your plant