A guide on how to straighten and level off low hedges like box, yew
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Six on Saturday 30th of June
Good morning folks, what a dry week that has been! Everywhere I look the grass is a shade of brown, pots seem to dry out within minutes of being watered, it’s more like late August than the last few days of June. The rain they forecast is always on the move isn’t, one day it’s…
Six on Saturday 23rd of June.
Well well good morning one and all and we are back to the weekend once more! Thankfully it’s a weekend I am seeing again, confused? Well last Saturday I did something rather silly but does show how dangerous gardening can be and how whatever you are doing, you need to think about it at all…
Plant of the week- Drimys winteri
My plant of the week this week is Drimys Winteri, a beautiful small tree from South America, find out how to grow and enjoy this beautiful plant
Plant of the week- Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Etienne Soulange-Bodin
The plant of the week is one stunning plants around at the moment,
Plant of the week- Stachyurus praecox
Some plants knock you over with their beauty and this is one! Stachyurus praecox is a stunning shrub from Japan, learn more about this shrub and how to grow and care for it, in my plant of the week blog!
Cloud pruning- turning a blob into a sculpture, how to do it!
Cloud pruning is becoming more and more popular now, this blog is a guideline to turn a blob shape into something of architectural beauty
Plant of the week- Sophora ‘Sun King’
This weeks plant of the week is the very beautiful Sophora ‘Sun King’ this stunning shrub is delighting us with its flowers at the moment
Six on Saturday: 17.02.2018
February is disappearing rather fast now with only one more Saturday left before we hit March. The mornings are certainly much lighter and as for the evenings,it’s almost light until 6pm now. Another month and the clocks will change and spring forward, at last we will be able to do a little more in the…
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