Many plants that are not flowering such as Camellia and wisteria plants often start to flower after being stressed for example on non flowering wisteria we often suggest cutting with a budding knife the...

Perfect soil for carrots – Ideally the perfect soil for growing carrots should be a heavy loam improved with organic matter such as well rotted garden manure or garden compost with sharp of grit...

Both Privet or yew Hedge can be reduced quite drastically and if cared for following the reduction they will recover from dormant buds in the stems. The reduction in the height is achieved by...

How Hedging plants can help to stop traffic noise. Traffic noise close to your home can become quite a bother.It also tends to take away the sense of tranquillity to those who own gardens.Hedging...

The Vine Weevil is a pest that infests a wide range of ornamental plants and fruits both indoors and outdoors. It is one of the most common and destructive garden pest.Containerisation however seems to...

Plants to produce a screen in a coastal area: A good indicator to weather or not a plant will survive to windy and salty conditions near to the sea is to look for a...

Begonia corns are beststart them in January February in a dry soil based John Inness compost lightly watering them every week on a cool window sill in a cool room maybe a hall way...

Using an old Belfast sink to grow alpines in it for a garden feature.When we have done this we have scuffed the sides and then rendered it will a mixture of sand, cement and...

Indoor lemon and organge trees often suffer from red spider mite which is a very small spider like insect that sucks the sap of the plant discolouring the leaves and in some cases causing...