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Recent gardens

Summer is still here.. Just. We’ve had a few very autumnal days.. Chillier in the mornings, and if the sun stays behind the clouds all day, chilliness starting to set in late afternoon. Still lots of colour, Japanese anemones, chrysanthemums, echinacea, rudbeckia, all still flowering strongly and roses of course!

Some amazing colours and forms

Last week’s gardens

Some of the work done last week.

Early morning planting

6.30 am nice temperature for planting, after yesterday’s overgrown lawn, a nice change to be creative. This lawn had to be strimmed before cutting with a lawnmower, and even that cut will have to be a high one

Latest gardening

Getting nature to help!

Well here in the South East of England, we were having a hot spell..(25 to 31 degrees C). Having lived in Málaga, and various other hot countries, this for me is “lovely” weather! Dry and sunny also means I can use those conditions to try and eliminate unwanted plants, whether they are weeds or justContinue reading “Getting nature to help!”

Bushes and hedges

Now that the weather is improving and getting “hot” everybody wants to tidy up hedges and bushes.. And an echinacea plant that a customer bought last year.. Now really coming into its own.

Enjoyable

I’ve always liked clearing overgrown neglected gardens (not through the owner’s fault.. Many times it’s a result of time and manageability) and attempting to restore them to hire they would have looked. Generally I try not to use chemical weedkillers.. Just because you still have to clear the dead weeds once the chemicals have worked,Continue reading “Enjoyable”

Make overs

Plants that should come with a warning

The other day I was watching Gardener’s World (CPD) and one of the presenters was showing how you can have a wildlife pond in any size garden by sinking a wooden half-barrel in the ground – a great idea !! click on the link below to wqtch the barrell pond. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09jbcl8 you’ll notice that heContinue reading “Plants that should come with a warning”