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Cottage Soil Might Need Organic Matter.
Cottage soil organic matter – Often the soil found in old cottage type houses has over a number of years especially in the Victorian period has had ash added to it from the old...
Spring Chrysanthumum Cuttings.
If you have saved your chrysanthumum plants from last year by cutting them back potting them up and placing them in a glasshouse,they should now be starting to create new shoots.Once the shoot have...
Pruning Old Lavender Plants.
Pruning lavender plants is essential to keep them healthy and looking their best. Here are the steps to prune old lavender plants: Timing: The best time to prune lavender is in the spring, just...
Winter Damaged Ceanothus
As spring starts to get underway, you might find damaged leaves on your ceanothus which by late spring will have turned brown and start to fall. With Ceanothus it’s unlikely that new leaves will...
Chitting And Planting Potatoes.
Its a good idea to chit your potatoes before planting chitting simply means encouraging the seed potatoes to sprout before planting.This helps get them off to a good start.Start chitting from late January in...
Fungal Diseases On Roses And Lavender.
Fungal diseases on Lavender and roses – as a summer control for the fungal disease I would recommend using Bordeaux Fungicide more details can be found at the following address. http://gardenadvice.co.uk/advisor/gardening-tips/bordeaux-fungicide/ As for the...
Indoor Orchid Dropping Flowers.
Indoor Orchids sometimes with out warning with drop all the open flowers they have on a single or a number of stems.This is normally due to a change in the environment such as a...
Bougainvillea Winter Leaf Loss.
Bougainvillea they are in most cases semi evergreen plants and when the light levels drop around the end of the year.The plant tends to loss some of its leaves in the natural process of...
Young Sunburst’ Cherry Tree Die Back On Lower Branches.
Sunburst’Cherry tree die back on lower branches – The die back can often lead to a disease on older trees,but in the case of younger trees its often that they are struggling to become...
