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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 »
A very Happy New Year to you all! Here in Warwickshire we might not have experienced the extremes of rain that other parts of the UK have recently, but its still been pretty wet! Gardens are boggy, lawns saturated and flowerbeds more mud than soil. When the ground is this soft, it is better to… Read more »
Most of the leaves are off the trees now, allowing your evergreens to come to the fore. Evergreens are more than just conifers. There are lovely plants such as Box, Privet, Laurel and Bay that can be feature plants in your garden. Bay has the added benefit of being a culinary herb too. The deciduous… Read more »
As the leaves turn the countryside is looking glorious, the palate changing from greens to golds and reds. I have never seen New England in the ‘fall’, which is meant to be spectacular, but even here in Warwickshire the colours are pretty good. Have you got any autumn colour in your garden? The maple (Acer)… 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 »
At Chopwell Autumn is one of our favourite times of year. The local trees and hedges are looking wonderful and many are laden with fruit to forage. If you fancy foraging but are not sure what is edible, here are some ideas. Blackberries, easily recognized, just a bit smaller than the cultivated ones you can… Read more »
In the last blog we talked about some plant identification apps; since posting we have found there are many more available, usually hiding in the education genre of app stores. Some of these apps are real gems. As our main interest is trees our favourites are Forest Xplorer, created by the Forestry Commission. This has… 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 »
The impact of a summer storm on a tree can be far more damaging than a winter one. As the trees are in leaf they are far less aerodynamic, the leaves create a resistance to the wind, meaning the tree moves more. Summer storms like we have had recently can result in branch and /… Read more »
Are you predicting a barbeque summer? There are some who watch nature to predict the summer forecast months ahead. One way is remembering some of the old sayings, such as the one below. According to the rhyme by keeping an eye on the ash and oak trees in spring you will get a good prediction… Read more »
