Fruit and Vegetables

The lazy days of summer

Days Out, Fruit and Vegetables, Garden Design, Gardening, Landscaping, Leisure time in the garden, Pests and Diseases, Planting, Summer annuals, borders, Ceonothus, Colour, deadheading, Escallonia, feeding, flowers, Foxgloves, frost, garden, gardening, geraniums, irises, July, lupins, perennials, Philadelphus, Physocarpus, pots and containers, pruning, rhizones, scent, seed, semi-ripe, watering, weeding, Weigela, wisterial, work

I love the July garden, even mine, which although a work in progress has borders beautifully full to bursting and full of colour and scent. Ideally at this time of year we should all be enjoying our gardens and the fruits of our labour. Everything is at its peak and looking great so we should […]

The kindest cut

Edibles, Fruit and Vegetables, Gardening, Planting, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Winter annual, apples, Bees, branches, disease-free, fruit trees, loppers, productive, pruning, pruning saw, RHS, roses, secateurs, spade, spur-bearing, Trees, wildlife, Wood

I am often asked about pruning apple trees as it seems complicated to many people, but actually it is one of my favourite jobs in the garden and one I used to love when I was doing my gardening apprenticeship many years ago. Rather like pruning roses or other shrubs there are certain rules to […]