Spring flowering bulb planting in the autumn
Notes on Spring bulbs As we get into autumn now is the time to plant some spring bulbs Iris reticulata’Early season flowering bulb planted in the ground or in pots with John Inness compost...
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Hardwood cuttings for cornus or dog woods
Hardwood cuttings can be used to propagate a lot of garden shrubs such as Cornus and forsythiaStarting in the autumn through to the spring as you prune many of your plants back you can...
Lawn top dressing
The purpose of topdressing a lawn is to maintain the levels of the lawn and to help the grass plants to produce more shoots maintaining a denser thicker lawn. Top dressing is carried out...
Creating garden borders and shaping the lawn
With a new build house and garden we often start by creating the shapes of the flower borders and carrying out the initial planting. The next stage will be to add the bare root...
Mulching your borders
As mulch is a clean material free from weeds that covers your existing flower beds stopping light from getting to existing seeds and preventing them from germinating. In the case of spent mushroom compost,...