Thursday 11 April 2024
Supporting Your Garden Plants
This time of year its important to get the right frame work into your borders. No one wants floppy flowers. You need to get the supports in now before the plants get too big and before you damage them, particularly perennials like delphiniums and paeonies.
Sunday 17 March 2024
Plant Thugs Make Useful Ground Cover
Comfrey
We all have problem areas in our garden. Rather than grow weeds we do sometimes need a few strong plants to cover the ground and beat the weeds. These are some of my recommended thugs that can do the job!
Magnolias Month of Glory
How to Prune your Garden and when to Pruning
If It Flowers Before June Don't Prune
*Things that flower before June are flowering on wood or stems produced last year so don't cut them off before its had chance to flower, if you have time to prune it properly. Plants that flower later can have a trim in the early spring because they will flower on new growth later in the year.
Exochordia Is A beautiful Spring Flowering Shrub
Top Perennial Plants for Early Colour This Spring
Lamprocapnos Spectablis, Dicentra Spectablis or good old Bleeding Heart. What ever you now call this perennial it is just lovely.
Vinca, Primula elata, pulsatila, pulminaria, geraniums, bergena, bruneria, polemoniumn, (Solmon's Seal) Polygonatum and tiarella are just some of the gorgeous perennials performing at the moment.
Supporting The Bees In Spring
Friday 1 March 2024
Mother's Day
March Gardener’s Calendar
Monday 5 February 2024
Choosing an Early flowering Clematis
There are lots of early flowering Clematis that definitely deserves an acknowledgement.
Cirrhosa varieties, cartmanii types, alpina, macropetala, montana and armandii are all widely available.
Evergreen Climbing Plants
Friday 2 February 2024
February Gardener's Calendar
Spring is coming. Snowdrops are just in flower. Daffodils are opening soon and the hellebores look stunning. It is time to get back out in the garden.
Saturday 20 January 2024
Instant Winter colour and Spring is Round the Corner
It feel like spring is just around the corner. Our seasonal tunnel is bursting with spring bedding and bulbs already. There is so much colour to enjoy.
Thursday 18 January 2024
Sarcococca Confusa Or Christmas Box
Sarcococca Confusa is a small leafed glossy green hardy evergreen with sweet scented small stringy flowers in winter often at Christmas or just after hence the common name Christmas Box.
Mahonia A Tough Winter Shrub
Winter Garden Plants
I love winter gardens, the unusual flowers, the bark, the berries the winter stems then the bulbs. Its understated but when you looks it's very beautiful and sadly we don't plant enough winter colour.
Wednesday 3 January 2024
Viburnum Tinus One of the Best Fragrant Winter Flowering Hardy Evergreen
Viburnum Tinus
Simply looking amazing is the viburnum tinus. I love everything about this large evergreen shrub. Numerous varieties are available from basic tinus to, Spirit, Gwenllian, Lisa Rose, Purpurea and French White, Spring Bouquet. The differences are very slight and I have yet to tell them all apart. The flowering time vary slighty as does the blossom colour. I have a garden full of the Viburnum tinus and I does really well and I hasten to add it has a lovely fragrance.
Creating A Good Winter Garden
Grumbles about winter gardens are not justified. The fault lies firstly with us and our fair weathered nature. We shop when its warm and buy what we see in flower in May and June and miss the winter flowers. I am generalising. Go shopping on a mid winters day and you will then appreciate we have colour all winter.
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