Thursday, 8 May 2025
Friday, 18 April 2025
Edible flowers Are Abundant All Year Round
Edible flowers are a hot topic at the moment and whilst I do not recommend taking risks with something new if you may have allergens and many people have pollen allergies there are many reasons for adding pretty flowers to your salads and cakes.
How To Make A Summer Hanging Basket
There are different ways of potting up baskets and we don't always follow the same pattern but here is one Peter made up.
You will need:
Spring Season Ready
Welcome to the spring season, to the abundant gorgeous shrubs,
perennials, roses, climbers and our full arboretum of trees.
Monday, 7 April 2025
Home Grown Talk
This weekend we 'got going with grow your own'. It doesn't stop at vegetables. Home produce includes indispensable herbs for cooking and seasoning, fruit bushes and trees and amongst this we are thrifty to include all the perennial plants that we do not need to replant annually.
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Herb Garden Salad
My own garden salad. Made impromptu from my herb garden.
Sorrel, wild garlic, Salad Burnet, chives, mixed salad leaves, lambs lettuce, flat leaf parsley, wild rocket and for a sprinkling of colour few violas. Top with a dressing of French mustard, grilled lemon, toasted sesame seed oil and a drop of maple syrup.
There is nothing technical in this quick fix salad and it tasted great.
Companion Planting, Plants That Should and Should Not Be Grown Together
Companion planting is usually something we discuss in reference to protecting our vegetables from pests and enhancing their growth. Herbs in general are very beneficial when often aromatic creating distraction.
Here Are Some Plants That support One Another
Dwarf lilac Syringa meyer Palibin Looking it's Best
Syringa meyeri Palibin
So here are my 2 dwarf lilacs in their full glory. These are in bud and just waiting to flower. This is a much smaller species of lilac that what we are used to but has all the benefits of one of the best shrubs for fragrance. I love this but smaller and daintier shrub.A Gorgeous Fragrant Spring Flowering Evergreen Shrub Viburnum Burkwoodii
Another gorgeous viburnum with evergreen foliage, fragrant spring blossom and great autumn colour. This is Burkwoodii
Spring Favourites Spirea x arguta
One of the big spring favourites Spirea x arguta out in early spring. A feathery tall shrub with a cascade of bridal like white flowers. It's a tough shrub. I seam to be able to grow it everywhere. I think you could make a hedge of it as I like the soft foliage but it is deciduous.
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.
Exochordia Is A beautiful Spring Flowering Shrub
Magnolias Month of Glory
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Choosing the Roses for your Garden
Fragrant Roses – Choosing the roses for your garden with Julia & Jacky Sat, 26 Apr, 10:15 FREE TO BOOK on our website EVENTS tab
March Gardener’s Calendar

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
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.
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
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