Category: Head Gardener

When you find toadstools in a lawn, there are generally two reasons why. Firstly, your turf has too much thatch.This is the dead matter that builds up at the base of the grass plants...

Buddleia asiatica are normally ok with a range of temperatures and able to survive both cold and extreme heat.With high temperatures you will find that the plants spring or fresh growth will wilt during...

Moving an established hydrangea is not the easiest project simply because they are very hard to move with any of the smaller fibrous roots. Moving it in January and February is OK it’s one...

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 sow...

Moving a Yucca plant,this is best done from the end of November until the end of March,after this period the plant will have a problem developing new feeding roots to access soil moisture,in any...

Indoor orange trees in the mid winter months often suffer from red spider mite and it can be a real problem. Its a very small spider very hard to see that attacks the softer...

When putting down a new lawn in the winter the soil is often not very workable especially if its a heavy clay.When soil is heavy and unworkable its often difficult the work the soil...

Plants to cover a north facing shed have a look at Pyracantha orange glow and Garrya elliptica both are evergreen and have interest in the winter the Pyracantha with berries and the Garrya With...

Pyrus Salicifolia ‘Pendula’ Arbutus Unedo Acer Palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku’ Malus Domestica ‘Spartan’ Malus Evereste Betula Utilis ‘Snow Queen’ Prunus Shogetsu Amelanchier Lamarckii Liquidambar Styraciflua Moonbeam Sorbus Aucuparia ‘Fastigiata’ Pyrus Salicifolia ‘Pendula’ Arbutus Unedo Acer Palmatum...