You can’t plant a garden then turn your back on it
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Secret garden – Somerset
Planting plans are quite technical documents!
Biodiversity garden – Malmesbury
Living with wildlife
Willow and garden design
Willow structures and sculptures sit perfectly in gardens
July in the garden
The weather has been rather disappointing so far this year, rather a lot of rain, wind and not enough sunshine. I have had bad germination rates early on in the season and then when my garden was looking at its very best in early June, wild stormy weather snapped stems off my Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpurem’,…
June – garden notes
keeping busy in June
The Grove Hotel – Watford
Horticultural excellence…
The biennial: Lunaria annua
With its beautiful yet confusing name, honesty is sometimes overlooked as common and dull. However it is a fantastic value plant with long lasting vibrant purple flowers in May followed by papery moon-like seed heads for winter displays in the home. In my garden it self seeds and contrasts beautifully in May with lemon yellow flowers…
Composting – Part II
I understand this won’t be for everyone however if you have herbivore pets then composting will take care of itself. Manure from plant eating animals acts as an ‘activator’ for the composting process. The nitrogen in the manure / droppings enriches the bin with millions bacteria, these feed on the woody material in the bin and…
Dogwoods in the garden
I dare you to cut back your dogwoods…