Author: GardenAdvice

Keep Your BottleBrush Booming.

BottleBrush As Garden Plants – These woody shrubs make excellent garden plants and range from 0.5 to 4 meters tall.Many species thrive in damp conditions but tolerate dry spells and limited attention.When grown in...

Plants, Shade and Conifers.

Shade In Your Garden – Almost every gardener longs for a lush,vibrant garden where their plants are healthy,protected and most of all grow to the best of their abilities.Also in the garden, gardeners try...

Best Compost For Growing Potatoes

Potatoes grow best in open textured compost that is rich in organic matter. When it comes to compost, a well-balanced compost that is rich in nutrients and has a neutral pH is generally the...

Chafer Grub Control.

Nemasys Chafer Grub Killer. Chafer grub killer is the recommended application to most lawns during August and early October.This is when the young grub larvae are active and the temperature is above 12ºC (54ºF)....

Leather Jacket Control On Lawns.

Daddy longlegs or crane flies come from leather jacket larva in your lawn  Leather jackets are the larvae of crane flies, which are also known as daddy-long-legs. They are a common pest that can...

Plants And Damp Peaty Soil.

Most flowering plants that need peaty or acid soil are not too keen on damp conditions and one would therefore have to drain the soil.This can be done by installing a drainage system into...

Slippy Decking.

Often softwood decking can become slippy due to a of a build up a layer of algae and litchens which become slippy in wet conditions.These are in effect small micro plants feeding on the...

Nectarine Tree Loosing Fruit.

Nectarine tree land other type of fruit trees loosing fruit is often due to a lack or potash and/or Magnesium in the soil.A good general feed of a plant food such as growmore fertilizer...

Building A Waterfall.

Building a waterfall we would normally only cement in the key rock and then stack the remaining rocks on these key rocks but it does depend on how steep the water fall is.1 to...

Non Flowering Narcissus/Daffodils.

Do you have daffodils that are Non flowering?This is probably because the plants were cut back too early the following year. For the best results,the plants need to be fed with ‘Grow More’fertilizer at...