Great winter flowering shrubs can shorten winter! Is that overstating it? Well perhaps, but it can certainly make those dark dank days of winter more bearable! It will be [...]
How to make lockdown Beech Noyau is a departure from my normal blog topics! But then these are extraordinary times that are resulting in extraordinary activities! The Coronavirus [Covid-19] [...]
It’s time to get your lawn in shape for summer! It has been a punishing winter for most lawns and a drive around the neighbourhood has confirmed my suspicions. I’m not the only one that has [...]
In this blog I want to share with you my tips on growing tomatoes. Maybe you consider yourself an expert? But I find no matter how experienced a gardener you are there is always something to [...]
Modular growing of plants is on the increase and there are many advantages to raising plants this way. This frustrating season! Here we are in mid February and hardly a thing has been sown [...]
Tips on Forcing Hyacinth Bulbs Hyacinth bulbs need to have well developed roots before they can be forced and brought inside. If you rush things and try to bring them on before a [...]
Soil pH may not sound the most exciting thing to a gardener but it’s essential to get it right for many plants to flourish. You’ve probably heard of so called ‘lime hating plants’ and maybe even [...]
Flood lighting a garden is perhaps not top of your ‘to do’ list. However with shorter days and longer nights it can really enhance a garden. Read on and I think that you might see the [...]
Autumn Planting is best but why have we got out of the habit? When I left college and started my first job, it was common practice to plant your garden in the autumn. Now we seem to wait for the [...]
I call it layered bulb planting but some call this “lasagna planting”. It’s easy to see why. Planting spring flowering bulbs in layers one on top of the other really does extend the flowering [...]