Posts Categorised: News

Wildlife Friendly Garden

Chopwell is committed to making 2022 the year of Wildlife Friendly Garden.  As we work throughout Warwickshire, we want to encourage all our clients and everyone who takes the trouble to read this blog, to make some small changes that can have a big impact on the wildlife that calls your garden their home. Provide… Read more »

Get ready to celebrate!

With Christmas less than 2 weeks away we are getting ready to celebrate!  Although what form our Christmas celebrations might take are changing with the advice from the government. What we are getting ready to celebrate is the Platinum Jubilee of our Queen next year. The Queens Green Canopy One of the main ways the… Read more »

Autumn tree in sunset

Hedges and Ditches

November is the month to focus on hedges and ditches.  As we retreat from the garden for the winter, now is the best time for a tidy up! Hedges November is a great time to cut and shape evergreen and some deciduous hedges.  The birds have stopped nesting and the hedging plants are dormant.  Cutting… Read more »

How can I save the planet in my garden?

With COP26 at the end of the month and Earthshot prizes just awarded we are being asked, ‘How can I save the planet in my garden’?   There are many choices we can make in our gardens to help us tread more lightly on the planet. Keep it messy Wildlife and diversity flourish where there… Read more »

Natures Harvest

Natures Harvest is bountiful in September.  Take a walk in the countryside.  See the gorgeous colours and find  the many wild fruits, nuts and fungi ready to harvest.  The most traditional and easiest to spot are blackberries.   Their purple jewel berries are everywhere this year, it is a real bumper crop.  Other foods can… Read more »

Keep picking and harvesting!

Farmers are in the full swing of the harvest and if you can, keep picking and harvesting in your garden too.  Flowers and edibles keep producing more for you if you keep cutting. Picking Flowers It is particularly important to keep removing any finished blooms on repeat flowering plants to encourage the plant to produce… Read more »

Staycation gardening

You may be counting down the days until your staycation or holiday and how much time you have left to get ready.  Before you go spare a thought and perhaps an hour or two to get your garden staycation ready too.  As you leave your routine for some days, perhaps a fortnight or even longer,… Read more »

Blooming this June!

It is Blooming June in gardens everywhere!  The recent lovely sunshine and hot weather has encouraged everything into full bloom this June.  We really hope your garden is looking as pretty as a picture. All the plants we expected to flower in May have caught up. The June flowers are on time making a spectacular… Read more »

Gardening in mud with weeds

Gardening this month is a challenge.  There is mud from all the rain and the weeds are loving it, growing so much better than the plants we want to see.  The dry April and now the rain has made the ground as wet as you would expect in March, making it difficult to dig, and… Read more »

Spring Sunshine

The spring sunshine is amazing at the moment!  Everything seems so much more positive when we can get out and enjoy the sun.  I love this time of year when every tree and plant is breaking into leaf or flower.  It is very tempting to plant out lots of frost tender plants as the weather… Read more »

Magnolia Stellata