One of the great things I get to do with gardening is the chance to experiment with plants and test planting combinations before they ever hit the customers garden. This year I have planted many new perennials in trial beds to see how they cope in different situations and how they look with other perennials […]
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Seeing plants grow
I have been away down in the Evesham area, it’s a great place to see many working nurseries growing and selling plants, as well as some of the enormous glasshouses on a commercial scale. One place that I often visit has a great outdoor growing area where all the plants are labelled up and growing […]
Yorkshire grapes
One of the challenges I undertook in the last two years was to look after a grape vine living in a greenhouse in Yorkshire. Having been given instructions in 2010 on how to ensure it fruits AND ripens, I have carefully checked the vine, pruned it when necessary and thinned the fruit out as I […]
