STEP BY STEP FORMATIVE PRUNING

STEP BY STEPFORMATIVE PRUNING Garden tips from Head Gardener Dave Bouch Raising a tree's crown encourages top growth and creates an attractive shape. So, here are our garden tips on formative pruning which is good to do in early spring, starting from March. 1 Start by removing lower branches with a handsaw. 2 To ensure a clean cut, it helps to undercut each branch first. 3 For higher branches, use an extendable pole saw - it's much...

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Garden tips for September

Fall Garden Tips The fall garden tips for the month of September, the most beautiful of all. In the fall garden, a final fling of colour, saturated and intense, is in stark contrast to the mellow parchment shades of surrounding meadows.The hard light of summer is replaced by soft warm rays, and the low sun pulls and rakes shadows across the garden. September also brings the first frosts, caught in the layers of flowers and foliage, so fall...

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Garden Tips from English garden expert

Garden Tips from English garden expert The ornamental garden plants are growing just as fast as the crops in the kitchen garden. In the Japanese garden, I am now ready to cut back the tips of the pine branches, as I am happy with the size and form they are now - this allows the trees to mature and not lose form. Elsewhere in the garden. Clematis montana also needs a little controlling. Although it does not require pruning for flowers, we thin...

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Important Garden Tips

GARDEN TIPS FOR YOUR GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE Here are some important garden tips to keep your garden beautiful and blooming.  Re-potting must be done once a year and the pot should not be bound by roots Keep the soil light and aerated and moist. To It, add manure, peal moss, bone meal, pieces of bricks. Pruning your plants keeps them in shape and encourages growth - another important garden tips. A few basic pruning cuts will help...

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Top 3 plants for winter garden fragrant flowers

Garden tips for winter garden fragrant flowers  Head Gardener of Mottisfont David Stone picks the top three plants for fragrant flowers from his winter garden. (From The English Garden) Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ This winter-flowering honeysuckle brings the fragrance of midsummer to enchant and enliven the senses on the dullest of mid-winter days. The small, cream-coloured flowers first appear among the largely...

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Holly decorations

Holly decorations from your garden Decorate your outdoor space with our simple holly decorations Christmas festive ideas. CHRISTMAS WREATH Decorate a pine wreath with sprigs of holly snipped from the garden, and hang from your door, gate or hedge. This wreath came from Seasons Florists. SIMPLE BASKET  A small wooden container of freshly cut berry-laden holly needs no further embellishment for your Christmas festive holly decorations....

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Garden tips on HOW TO PLANT IN STOCK BEDS

HOW TO PLANT IN STOCK BEDS Garden tips with pictures BAREROOT PLANTING Buying bareroot plants is the cheapest option. While final planting positions are being prepared or decided upon, plants are heeled into a stock bed. Bareroot plants are only available from autumn through to spring and can be planted at any time when the ground is not frozen. Having not been restricted by a pot, they tend to put on growth much faster than pot grown...

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Beautiful Country Cottage Garden in France

Beautiful Country Cottage Garden in France France has warm and great climate that can provide every possibility to create a beautiful country cottage garden. Check out these beautiful pictures of on of the country cottage gardens in France. Iris and blue delphiniums behind it create massive cottage garden impression. Left: Seedlings spontaneous and digitally Poppy bring a red and counterpoint purple in this massive predominantly...

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Garden tips on coleus plants

Coleus plants and garden tips Coleus plants are out to conquer the world... or so it seems, considering the groundswell of new varieties and their growing fan base. Check out our garden tips for coleus plants. Once limited to sun-averse varieties, this genus of tropical plants now offers coleus plants hybrids that flourish in both sun and shade. Talk about broadening your horizons. Coleus plants varieties Who would have thought an annual...

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Godinton House Delphinium Flower Garden

 Delphinium Flower Garden Godinton House is famous English garden for its walled Delphinium Flower Garden. In mid-June, the long borders in the walled garden at Godinton House are a magnificent sight: a mass of indigo, blue, mauve, pink and white spires, all swaying back and forth, dancing to the melodic hum of the bees as they buzz from flower to flower. ‘This was the vision of Bob Carvill, a memberof the local Delphinium Society branch. Running...

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New Garden Office Ideas from British company

Garden Office Ideas British agency Archipod developed a new garden office, an easily movable structure, in which you can pleasantly to work and enjoy your garden. I think kids will especially love this garden office idea. It's surely feels like you are in spaceship in this modern garden office! ...

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Nasturtiums how to grow

Nasturtiums in the garden Most of us can claim to have grown a nasturtium or two by about age six, as nasturtiums large seeds make them a favorite "day-care project" (along with beans and sunflowers), and because they germinate so quickly (in 10 to 14 days)- presumably before budding young horticulturists lose interest. But familiarity shouldn't breed contempt: These annuals have handsome, shield-shaped leaves and bear unique, helmethaped flowers...

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Outdoor decorating ideas

Outdoor decorating ideas Having beautiful garden gives you lots of inspiration decorating ideas. Look at our outdoor decorating ideas for new ideas. Create relaxing area in your garden. Nice decorating ideas on outdoor resting areas. One of the easiest outdoor decorating ideas is using a hammock with lot of pillows and fabric throws. Create a romantic tea setting around your lavender bushes. ...

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