How to Start Your Own Gardening Business An Insider Guide to Setting Yourself Up as a Professional Gardener is a useful tutorial if you want to set up a gardening business. I recommend you consider your aspirations and limitations carefully and either set up a ‘Life Style business’ or consider becoming a qualified, professional career [...]
Archive | January, 2010
Lawns in Winter
You might get sent to the Tower of London if you damage your Lawn during winter. One gardener must be there as the picture of their lawn in January after the snow is shown above. You can start your own business with the book and tips below. Winter Lawn Care Do not walk on frozen [...]
Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora
Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora is a low maintenance, hardy, evergreen sub-shrub also known as Creeping Milkwort, Chapparal Pea or Bastard Box. It bears racemes of purple-pink and yellow, pea-like flowers. Flowering is fragrant and profuse in late winter to very early spring, often with further blooms in summer. Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora is capable of forming a [...]
Top Ten Orchid Families
Orchids are the largest known family of plants and it is invidious to select a top ten. Each genus below has several or even thousands of species and numerous hybrids so treat this list as a taster to the world of top Orchids. Phalaenopsis or … Moth Orchids Dendrobium Cymbidium Boat Orchids Cattleya Paphiopedilum – [...]
Gardening with Water Features
January may be a bit cold to think about water features in your garden. Be ready as soon as the hard frosts are over to redesign your garden with an appropriate fountain or continuous flow of water like the powered globe above. Water features in this context are the prefabricated devices you can buy ready [...]
Growing Dendrobium Orchids
Dendrobium is an extremely large and varied genus of Orchids containing both deciduous and evergreen types. They originate from India, China, Malaysia and Australasia with nearly all being epiphytic (growing on trees). They typically develop pseudobulbs, which are small storage bulbs that house the plant’s energy. How To Care For A Dendrobium Houseplant The ideal [...]
Euphorbia rigida in a Succulent Garden
Euphorbia rigida is a choice evergreen Euphorbia with blue/green fleshy leaves arranged in spiralled whorls around the stem. It has a lax habit with several stems up to 2 feet long. The flower buds are pink opening to an acid yellow in spring or early summer. This specimen was photographed in the new alpine house [...]
Improved Clay Soil Gardening
Does your soil sticks to your shoes and garden tools like glue? Is your soil slow to warm up in the spring and hard to manage? If your soil is slow draining, forms big clods, crusts over and cracks in dry weather then you have clay or even heavy clay soil. Clay soil is made [...]
Early Spring Flowers
The snow and exceptionally cold snap has delayed the first snowdrops, but, this weekend, I spotted the first snowdrops peeping through the soil. I love the way they suddenly just appear. You hardly have time to notice the leaves before they are in bloom. Another great early spring flower is the yellow aconite. A low [...]
Gardening with Hellebores
Hellebores are generally very accommodating plants flowering early in spring and living happily in shade. Avoid Helleborus foetidus the stinking hellebore or setterwort, if you want coloured rose like flowers but it has shapely green florescence if you like growing a flower green bed. As this graphic shows there are a growing number of hybrids [...]
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