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Successful Sweetpeas
This is my first year of having a successful sweet pea crop and I can confirm they are growing, fast! Having been away for a couple of weeks I was amazed at just how much they had grown. It was like a bush of sweet peas, and although I had plenty of flowers, they did need some tidying up. Did you know they grow 5-6 inches a week? Just amazing. …
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Embracing Evergreens
One of the things I love about Instagram is the ability to be able to look back through my pictures and see what my garden looked like in previous years. While Spring and Summer is when the garden really bursts into activity, I love the slow decline and the stillness that Autumn and Winter brings. Structural plants really come into their own throughout the Winter months, and I believe them to be an…
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Potting up your Darling Dahlias
The Darling Dahlia (as I like to refer to them) is one of my favourite flowers. They can bloom well into October and are rather beautiful, coming in all shapes, sizes and colours (so many in fact that there is one there for everyone). Even better, they are very low maintenance (my type of flower) and will thrive in most sunny spots and soils so long as there is good moisture and drainage. Back in October I wrote a blog…
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There will be nothing bare about these roses in a couple of months
This week I’ve been planting up some bare root roses, so I thought I would share with you a quick step by step guide as to how to do this. Any time between November and April is a good time to plant them, as this gives them enough time to establish before blooming over the Summer. However, if your ground is frozen or waterlogged, I would wait.The first step is to select where you want your…
