Neat, well trimmed edges make your lawn and garden look tidy and cared for. World class gardens take care of neat edges especially on formal lawns. In most cases you need to avoid obstructions that prevent achieving a well trimmed edge as these painted rocks do. Grass growing at the base of these rocks is [...]
Archive | November, 2009
16 Exceptional Gardeners and Seven Christmas Books
If gardeners are exceptional people then buy them a copy of this book for Christmas. It contains 20 stories and profiles about encounters with gardeners and a day in their life to provide reading matter for dark garden-free evenings. Amongst those covered are these sixteen: Roy Roberts Landscape Gardener Roy Lancaster from Gardener’s Question Time [...]
Alpine Plunge Bed
The new Alpine House at Harlow Carr has a plunge bed to be proud of as you may expect from the RHS. This Dionysia Curviflora has been double potted to facilitate watering and it’s flowers will be purple with a white inner ring and dark centre. The plunge bed is at a good viewing height [...]
Holly for Christmas
Get out and pick your holly for Christmas decorations now. As the berries ripen the birds descend and scoff the lot just when you are not looking. You can condition the stems, leaves and berries and placing stalks in a glycerin solution. They will take up the liquid and become supple and longer lasting. Crush [...]
Crab Apple Trees for Fruit & Ornament
The flowering crab apples, Malus Rosaceae, are excellent floral trees with the added bonus of small usually edible fruit. The Malus Red Sentinel above has a profusion of small hard red autumn fruit that can be admired in the garden, left to feed birds, converted into a jelly or added to other food dishes. Crab [...]
Alpine Troughs and Plant Selections
Outside Harlow Carr’s new Alpine house are a collection of troughs, stone sinks and other containers suitable for a collection of Alpine plants. The planting varies and is related to the soil and rock conditions each plant prefers. One container has old rotting logs and a richer soil for small rhododendrons and other species. Others [...]
Hippophae Orange Berries
Orange berries are profuse if you have a fertilised female plant
Pampas Grass Upclose
Pampas grass is the name given to species of the genus Cortaderia, most commonly Cortaderia Selloana which is available with white or pink plumes on strong stalks. Different varieties flower at different times and this example is a late autumn flowering variety that will look fine through early winter. Spring varieties may be slightly lower [...]
Choisya Bonsai
This small pot containing an even smaller Choisya ternata is growing happily in our front room. New leaves of light green are almost translucent and provide clean foliage. The leaves when crushed give off a very pleasant scent. This plant was one of many grown from cuttings the siblings are now in the garden. Also [...]
In Praise of Frost
‘If winter comes can spring be far behind’ or should that be changed, due to global warming, as the season merge. Due to lack of seasonal frost many spring flowers have been appearing through late Autumn and my Primula and even Wallflowers are showing lots of colour. What we need is a series of crisp [...]
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