I have recently completed a planting plan for a very dark and dry corner of a garden. The client had tried and failed to grow a number of plants, and told me that nothing would grow there.   However ivy, blue bells and snow drops were growing happily and they are clearly not nothing, weeds...Read More

Last year some clients asked for my help to brighten up a dark corner of their garden. The problem was a very large Conifer and a Yew tree casting shade over the end of the garden, both of which they wanted to keep. In their words ‘Nothing would grow there’, the grass and cultivated plants they...Read More

Frost-damaged plants are easy to spot; their growth becomes limp, blackened and distorted. Evergreen plants often turn brown and the leaves of tender plants take on a translucent appearance. Here are 10 top tips that can be used to help prevent your garden from frost damage and prepare it for the spring!! If you have...Read More

I hate to burst the bubble of gloom that has descended over Britain due to a few dull days, summer may be ending, but that does not mean Winter is here. So many clients are talking about winter already, some thinking that the garden is finished, others hoping that garden work is done for the...Read More

Last year I planted a couple of Echinacea, hoping against hope that they might get some roots out before being eaten over night by snails. Not only were they not eaten, they survived the snow and frost, lots of lush greenery came out in Spring, 30 beautiful buds in June, and in the first week...Read More