Category: Head Gardener

Indoor Begonias like a temperature range of 55 to 70 F. They grow best in slightly shaded positions not in direct sunlight.They like to be kept moist but not left standing in water, otherwise...

Question The flowering cherry tree in my garden has grown too big; it is over 20ft tall and needs cutting back by at least one third. When is the best time of year to...

Question We have a 12ft Quercus Suber feathered 20/25cm girth which we bought at that height a year ago.We have a south facing garden.It does not appear to have grown at all since then...

The Organic Garden Catalogue offers two late sowing seed collections, one vegetable,and on the other salad which are quite interesting and can provide vital information for organic vegetable gardeners. In October you can still...

Ants can cause concern but they are a nuisance rather than destructive pests. They feed mainly on insects,including other ants.They also look for the sweet liquid known as honeydew,which is excreted by aphids and...

growing a grape from seed most people like to buy plants because then they know that they will get a cultivar that is good at fruiting.It is very exciting to grow your own grape...

Callistemon – cut out a third when danger of frost has passed and then to give it a good feed with growmore (but no more than the advised amount as too much fertiliser can...

Question I have a number of brambles creeping through my conifers how can I control them. Answer Brambles by there very nature will often invade other plants and creep and crawl through the plant...

Hoof and horn fertilizer is the traditional slow release fertilizer used in gardening since the victorian times.As the name suggests its simply ground up anaimal bones and contains hoof and horns of cattle etc.It...