Getting the best from your garden soil
Gardeners across Kent and Sussex enjoy a particularly varied range of soils and you often have only to travel a few miles to find a total change under your wellies. This is basically because of the equally varied geology underpinning our gardens from the chalk of the North and South Downs to the sandstone of Tunbridge Wells via Wealden clay...
Mediterranean style gardens
I thought that I would brighten up yotur January day by looking at Mediterranean style gardens. Many people have visited Mediterranean countries on holiday and (like me) have been entranced by the sun, sea, pine trees, scents and colours of the region, along with the shady courtyards where even the locals seem to spend time drinking coffee in the middle...
Choosing & planting Fruit trees
An advantage of winter planting is that you can buy young trees ‘bare-root’ more cheaply and with a greater range of varieties than pot-grown trees. Bare-root simply refers to the fact that they are grown on in open fields and lifted (dug up) just before delivery to you. The roots are protected but often just with a hessian or...
Give garden advice for Christmas
Garden Advice Vouchers Winter is the ideal time to decide what you want your garden to look like and plan changes ready for the spring planting season. If you need inspiration for the design or guidance and explanation on choosing and looking after plants, then maybe a Gardening by Design gift voucher is the present you are looking for. Or perhaps...
Structural Planting
This may be an unfamiliar term for a familiar method of . As leaves fall and soft green plants die back we are able to see the structure of a planting scheme and the rigid elements that are present through the winter too. We talk about the ‘bones’ of the garden and this is a good way to think of...