Category: Gardening Notes

Willows are best pruned in the spring.

October is a great time to create some winter and spring colour for your garden using pots and containers. It’s a great way to add some colour during the darker months of the year...

Although you can buy ready-trained fruit trees trained as fan or espalier or fan trained trees it’s often a good idea and more cost-effective to buy bare-rooted plants in the autumn and train them...

As your GardenAdvice MyGardenTeam service gardener has no doubt told you, to grow your own shrubs and perennial plants from cuttings is easy, which if true is you have several years of experience taking...

Acid soil loving plants care As a general rule acid ( soil conditions ) loving plants such as acer, camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias have evolved to grow on forest floors, a general indication...

The best compost heaps the GardenAdvice Team have found over the years has been home made ones created with old builder pallets. One as the base and three secured around the edges using tree...

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...

Feeding your plants  Late January into February is the best time to feed you plants with some Growmore fertilizer. The last of the heavy winter rains will wash the nutrients into the soil ready...

MyGardenTeam Whats it all about MyGardenteam –  its a simple idea that provides you with a personal gardening expert on the Garden Advice team to help you plan and carry out your gardening projects...