Category: Horticulture

Hello Autumn! Gardening in September…

We’re rewarded by the fruits in our orchards and the berries in our fruit gardens, and instead of beating down on our heads, the sun ? if we’re lucky enough to get another Indian Summer ? will gently warm our backs as we work outdoors, plotting and planning for next year’s garden and pruning, clearing and tidying up from this year’s.

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Roses

We all know that modern roses are easier to grow, kinder on the pocket and less tricky and troubling than their old fashioned counterparts but really, is there any substitute for an old fashioned rose sending its heady perfume into the evening as day slips to dusk.

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Gardening in July

We’re moving along into High Summer, which means if the weather holds, at the weekend and once the holidays start, you’ll likely be spending more time outdoors than indoors.

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Gardening in June – Flower Power

Flower Power is the name of the game this month and if you’ve only just got going or moved house and so are still finding your new garden feet, take a weekend trip to your local garden centre and stock up on those summer favourites that will need to be planted or potted up in a position where they can spend this month luxuriating in the warmth of early summer and any sunshine we are lucky enough to get.

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May. Prune, Tidy and Sow!

With apologies in advance for the fact that this month’s To Do blog sounds suspiciously like an episode of TV’s Casualty or Holby City because as we move this month (May) from Spring to early Summer we need to remember PTS.

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RHS – Gardens to Inspire

It’s May, which means just one thing on the British gardening calendar – the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show (May 24th to 28th). But the RHS has four and soon to be five other inspirational and permanent flagship gardens, all of which are well worth a visit to find ideas that will work in your own garden.

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Gardens in Blossom

This is it… the clocks have changed and our gardens are bursting into life with, if we have worked hard, a spectacle of colour thanks to our early summer flowering plants and trees.

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April! What a wonderful month!

I’d recommend stocking up on the energy bars and porridge oats this month because it’s time to roll your sleeves up and really get cracking in the April garden where all your planning and hard work over winter will now be starting to pay off.

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Spring is here. Tidy up your garden!

Let’s start with the big tidy up. Now is the time to cut back the last of the dead stems dangling from any perennials, which you’ve kindly left in place for the wildlife and now is also the time to mulch your flower borders

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Pruning for Beginners

This is the time of year when seasoned gardeners pick up their pruning shears and shiny new secateurs and swing into action in the garden to cut, tidy, nip, twist, prune and stake in order to prepare plants for the new growing season which is almost upon us.

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