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Is your garden beautiful and low maintenance? Many people believe the choice is one or the other, beautiful and high maintenance or low maintenance and boring. It doesn’t have to be this way! Good garden design, suitable plants and hard landscaping can create a beautiful, low maintenance garden. Using shrubs and perennials means your space… Read more »
We hope your garden is coming to life with colourful spring bulbs. Maybe you planted them last autumn or they have been there for many years. As you admire the vibrant colours take the opportunity to check that all the clumps are doing well. When a spring bulb is in flower it really is the… Read more »
Now, mid November is the ideal time to plant a hedge. The ground is still warm from the summer and the plants are dormant meaning it isn’t such a shock for them to be moved. When thinking about a hedge it is important to get the right plant for your garden. Our hedge hub suggests… Read more »
Autumn is a great time to plant a deciduous hedge. The question is what hedge to plant? It is easy to overlook the many deciduous options, but if you want year round interest, the deciduous hedge is, in our opinion, the winner. With many species and varieties to choose from, how do you decide what… Read more »
Low hedges sound a bit of a contradiction. A hedge is to keep something in or out, to define a boundary so why have a low hedge? In many garden designs from the cutting edge trendy to traditional cottage you will find that there are low hedges used To edge a path To frame a… Read more »
Spring is on its way, but it’s a frustrating time in the garden. Everything is getting ready to grow, but the prolonged rain means the ground too boggy to dig or plant. You may be desperate to get out there and start, but concerned you will damage soil structure as you tread on the earth…. Read more »
Its still very wet out there! In many Warwickshire gardens if you tread on your grass you leave a muddy footprint. Whilst the soil is this saturated the best way to help it is by keeping off it. In the last couple of blogs we have looked at how planting trees can help manage waterlogged… Read more »
October is one of the best months to plant a hedge, the ground is warm, the soil damp, and with more rain to come over the winter, once you have planted you can leave it alone until spring. If you can get bare rooted plants to put in now they will over winter and be… Read more »
Has your garden got the ‘September Blues? It’s when the annual flowers are leggy, untidy or finished. The final blooms of roses are scattered across the bushes, and beautiful upright plants are bashed about by rain and wind. It’s easy to fall out of love with your garden at this time of year, the gorgeous… Read more »
Out and about, do you see a plant and wish you knew what it was? Maybe its one you’d like for your garden but don’t know whether it is suitable. Until recently the only way to identify a plant was asking someone with knowledge or looking up the leaf or flower in a plant finder… Read more »
