We’ll try to give you a few ideas on what might need doing in your garden this week. Not everything in this article may apply to your garden – but there might be something, if not this week maybe next week.
Flower Garden:
Continue sowing hardy annuals wherever there is a need for colour; Sow extra in [...]

Flower Garden: Remove lilac suckers close to where they join the main roots. Divide overgrown bergenias, and replant young segments in fresh soil. Continue planting deciduous trees and shrubs when ground conditions are suitable. Prune all new bushy roses hard to healthy buds low down. Try to finish planting new roses by the end of the [...]

Flower Garden: Prepare new beds and smaller areas for spring planting. Clear dead fronds from hardy ferns, and use to protect tender bulbs and other dormant plants. Rake up fallen leaves from roses, especially where mildew or black spot was a problem, and burn. Lift and divide lily-of-the-valley, pot some up for forcing, and plant new [...]

Christmas is coming and winter is here, the weather is terrible but a gardeners work is never done, As usual we try to give you a few ideas on what might need doing in your garden this week. Not everything in this article may apply to your garden- but there might be something, if not [...]

The bleak November weather makes it difficult to say clearly what work, if any, to carry out during the week, but as usual we try to give you a few ideas on what might need doing in your garden this week. Not everything in this article may apply to your garden – but there might [...]