Garden Smarter, Not Harder!
Drying flowers is an easy and fun way to extend the life of your favourite bouquet or preserve a floral memento of a special occasion. Dried flowers make sweet gifts for birthdays or Valentines Day and do not cost the earth. Next time you order flower online or collect fresh flowers from the … [Read more...]
Living walls in a domestic setting means climbers. In a commercial setting a hydroponic or soil container based system with built-in watering might make sense, but is way beyond the reach of the average gardener, so let’s stay real here. Climbers are a great way to cover unsightly walls or … [Read more...]
You do need small shrubs for small gardens but you also need a range of heights up to 3 or 4 feet to provide interest. Ideally you need small evergreen shrubs to provide winter interest as well as spring, summer and autumnal displays of colour. Small Evergreen Shrubs Small evergreen shrubs … [Read more...]
Now is the time to cut back all your spring flowering shrubs. Cut out any old stems back to ground level to encourage new growth that will produce more flowers next May. Cut some of the trimmings to 12 inches long and stick the bottom end of the twig into the ground. Most will grow to give you … [Read more...]
