Archive | June, 2009

Honeysuckle Climbing Lonicera Varieties

By on June 2, 2009 in Gardening, Shrubs and Trees

Woodbine is the common name for this Honeysuckle that provides a strong sweet scent in the cottage garden from the end of May. The climbing twining Honeysuckles are part of a large family of Lonicera that also includes a range of shrubby plants. For sweetly flowering honeysuckle in winter try Lonicera fragrantissima or Lonicera Standishii [...]

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Cornus Family of Dogwoods

By on June 1, 2009 in Shrubs and Trees

Cornus controversa is a striking tree with tiered habit and heads of creamy-white flowers in May leading to it’s nickname The Wedding Cake Tree. The leaves of Cornus controversa Pagoda are a vibrant, dark green in spring and summer before turning a rich, plum-purple in autumn. The shrub is robust and can be seen growing [...]

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Weed Control Tips and Water Avens

By on June 1, 2009 in Gardening, Tips Hints and Ideas

I am suffering this year from a pernicious weed called ‘Avens’ part of the Geum family. It comes in two sorts the yellow flowered Wood Avens  Geum urbanum and the pinker flowered  Water Avens Geum Rivale. They seed freely and there-in lies the problem as individually they are innocuous but when they spread around they [...]

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