New Season Autumn Winter Violas

Violas have more flowers than pansies

It is Time to Start Planting Spring Bulbs for 100 Days of Colour

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It is a new season and we have a sweet shop of Prinz bulbs and this is the time to start choosing and planting them for next spring and possibly a few for Christmas! You can have 100 days of flower.

How To Make A Resilient Garden

 

The most topical garden subject right now is resilience. What will survive in your garden in the extreme climatic conditions we are experiencing. We may have had a prolonged drought and heatwave, but it is not as simple as planting Mediterranean gardens plants. Do you remember 2024 was unbelievable wet?

September Gardener's Calendar

It is the autumn planting and spring bulb planting season. As we

reach the end of the growing season we have the opportunity to prepare for next years garden by planting, pruning and perhaps rearranging borders. This is more important then every now as we face the challenges of extreme unpredictable climate conditions.

Choosing Perennials That Bring Colour From Late Summer Into Autumn

Gardens Do Not Finish at the end of summer

Late summer and you may think your gardens are past there sell by date, but you would be so wrong. Perennials that have finished flowering may just require a chop back to stop them going to seed. You may well then get a second flood of blooms.

Fruit for Thought. A Down to Earth Talk. Plant Your Fruit Now for Next Year

It's a very good time to plant fruit and the rest of your garden. The soil is moist and still warm giving shrubs, perennials, trees and fruit the optimum chance of establishing before we have winter dormancy. They can get their roots in the ground so they will be strong and ready to grow from April onwards next year.

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October Gardener's Calendar

Autumn has arrived and it's traditionally time for autumn planting. Its also the best time to reposition plants in your garden and of course get your spring bulbs in the ground. It's also time to plant your fruit bushes and trees.

Planting Autumn Winter Pots

 

Here are the ingredients for my autumn winter pots.

Autumn Winter Bedding Cyclamen For Baskets And Pots

 

Winter bedding cyclamen. Perfect to brighten up autumn, winter pots, baskets and containers.

My Go-Too Shrub Hypericum

 

It may not be evergreen but it flowers for ages

Winter Berries

These amazing winter berries are so colourful and they are out right now. Skimmia Kew White, Sorbus Josephs Rock, Callicarpa and Nandina domestica the false bamboo

Callicarpa Berries

 Amazing purple autumn winter berries on this callicarpa shrub. This is one of of autumn display beds.

Trees With Autumn Interest

Sorbus 'Josephs Rock'

Autumn interest makes us think of rich foliage and colourful fruits.

Crab Apple Are The Perfect Tree For Any Garden

 

Crab apple trees are lovely for any garden. They don't get too big, the fruits are outrageously gorgeous and in the spring the blossom is so pretty.

Euronymus Alatus or The Burning Bush

 

Euonymus 'Atlas' or the burning bush is a simple deciduous shrub with some of the very best autumn foliage when green leaves turn into rich red and pink and are truly stunning.

A Fantastic Autumn Vine, Vitis vinifera ‘Purpurea’

Vitis vinifera ‘Purpurea’ is the perfect autumn climber.The colour is so rich. A vigorous large tendril climber with deeply lobed leaves which are purple in summer, deepening in late summer and crimson-tinted in autumn. 

A New Large Evergreen Viburnum odoratissimum ‘Coppertop’

Looks like this is the new hot shrub. I can not believe how like a photinia it appears. The fresh growth is a good rich bronze. It is not as horrendously big as the 5m odoratissimum or green sweet viburnum. Hight wise this shrub is more like growing a Viburnum tinus or a Photina fraseri ‘Red Robin’.

Plants For Autumn Colour

Autumn is just around the corner. The leaves are beginning to turn, the berries look plump and burdensome, but the true theatrical flush of gorgeous colours and crisp falling leaves will probably occur early to mid October.

Deciduous Trees with Great Foliage Colour

 

Many trees have wonderful foliage, and this little collection represents those I felt were looking their best this May and is by no means everything.

Colour All Year In Your Garden

Colour Each Season In Your Garden Is Easy To Achieve