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This month’s focus: Preparation, soil feeding, pruning, lawn readiness, and setting the garden up for strong growth and colour later in the year. For more information about Sonia and Ben’s garden project, visit their...
This stage of the garden restoration focuses on controlled pruning, feeding, and temporary suppression, rather than removal and replanting. The aim is to rejuvenate existing plants, improve structure, and create stronger flowering growth. elaeagnus...
Side Border Illustration Overall Philosophy – Restoration Over Renovation Core Principle This is a restoration project, not a complete garden makeover. The goal is to roll the garden back to its condition before purchase...
Plan Now for Summer Colour: Essential February Tasks for a Blooming Garden February might seem like a quiet month in the garden, but it’s actually the perfect time to put in place the building...
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...