June and Ashley's Garden Notes
Autumn is the best time to plan and create some colour and interest in your garden for the winter and spring months. A few of the gardening projects you can undertake in the autumn...
To help you visualise the planting design for your front borders, your GardenAdvice MyGardenTeam gardener has created these notes for you. Next with your input we will create a planting plan The brief for...
Acid soil-loving plants As a general rule acid ( soil conditions ) loving plants such as camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias have evolved to grow on forest floors, a general indication of this is...
Planting some garden bulbs in the autumn is the traditional way to ensure you have lots of colour in the spring especially if you are new to gardening. As a general rule, they need...
Pricking out plant seedlings.Once the seeds you have sown have germinated and have grown to a size you can handle they will need to be transferred into individual pots or containers. This is called...
As your tulips finish flowering – now they have died back all the energy will have returned to the bulbs and formed next years flower so they can now be cut back. If they...
The lawn area – now the grass under the sheeting is dead we need to dig over the area. To dig an area such as yours remove the sheeting dig a trench across the...
Seeds in Seed Trays Before sowing any seeds into the trays, give the trays a good wash, if they have been used before. There is no sense in transferring last season’s diseases over to...
Creating an annual border is one of the most rewarding projects in gardening, within a few short months you can create a blaze of colour in your garden. Its quite a lot of work...
What kind of plants will grow in your spaces If you’re not sure, send the GardenAdvice team a photo of the area and we can suggest some plants. Plants require different growing conditions so...
Late winter is the best time to plant fruit trees using bare-rooted plant harvested by the growers directly from the fields they are grown in. Plants grown in pots which are found in garden...
