It was a good summer to be out in the garden in 2013, and if you visited a garden centre or nursery and saw the range of plants on offer (and the amount of people shopping) then you won’t be surprised to learn that the sales of plants increased markedly, this of course was probably […]
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Autumn Berries
Out and about I’ve been taking some photographs on my ‘phone of different berries I’ve come across in the last couple of weeks. These are just some of the pictures I have taken but they give an indication of the many different berry-ing plants that can be used in gardens….
Plant trials – Achillea
One of the great things I get to do with gardening is the chance to experiment with plants and test planting combinations before they ever hit the customers garden. This year I have planted many new perennials in trial beds to see how they cope in different situations and how they look with other perennials […]
Seeing plants grow
I have been away down in the Evesham area, it’s a great place to see many working nurseries growing and selling plants, as well as some of the enormous glasshouses on a commercial scale. One place that I often visit has a great outdoor growing area where all the plants are labelled up and growing […]
Yorkshire grapes
One of the challenges I undertook in the last two years was to look after a grape vine living in a greenhouse in Yorkshire. Having been given instructions in 2010 on how to ensure it fruits AND ripens, I have carefully checked the vine, pruned it when necessary and thinned the fruit out as I […]
