Author: George

Creating a Planting Schedule for your Garden

Different flowers and plants grow at different times of the year. If you want a year-round garden, it’s important you know what you can plant and when. One of the best ways to keep track of everything is to create a planting schedule for yourself.   A planting schedule will help you to be incredibly…

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Ways to Maintain Composite Wood Decking at Your Residence

There are several ways to relax after work or enjoy weekends, but nothing is possible as refreshing as sipping tea or coffee with friends. If the place is a composite wooden deck in the backyard or an open terrace, the experience can be awesome! The sets, composed of durable composite wood can enhance the appeal…

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Two Things to Think About When Cutting Overgrown Grass

There are many types of mowers that can be used but when you have let your grass overgrow, your standard mower may not be suitable. Now we are not saying that you need to have a range of mowers in different widths and styles as a professional gardener would! The type of mower you choose…

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Two Landscaping Mistakes To Avoid This Winter

With leaves already starting to shed as cooler winds swirl around and make room for a colder season. Here are a couple of winter landscaping preparation mistakes every homeowner should avoid this season. Forgetting to water plants – Hedges, fruit trees and shrubs all need water during colder winter months. It outside has tolerable temperatures…

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Encouraging bees into your garden

You may not realise but there are many different species of bees in this country, though some species are becoming alarmingly rare nowadays. Bees fall into 3 main general categories: bumble bees, honey bees and solitary bees. However, in order to encourage bees (of any type) into your garden then you will need to grow…

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Easy to grow border plants: Penstemons

Penstemons make a wonderful addition to any border in the garden and look most attractive with their long stems, full of clusters of quite large bell-shaped flowers. They come in a range of colours from pinks and reds to blues and purples and white. Some varieties may grow up to a metre tall and they…

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Hiring a gardener

If you are looking to hire a gardener, you will probably be confused as to how much you are expected to pay or want to pay and what sort of tasks they should undertake.   If you have a relatively simple garden which mainly needs regular mowing during the warmer months of the year plus…

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Bedding plants for pots and patios

Unless you have a very sheltered garden, it is probably still a little early to be thinking of planting out bedding plants for the pots, containers and hanging baskets located on your patio or in your garden. However, in another month, once the last frosts have abated, it will be time to think about your…

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How to Plant and care for Tulip Bulbs

There is no other flower that rewards the gardener in a rich and generous manner for just putting a bulb into the ground more than tulips. Tulip flower bulbs are easy to grow and look extremely pleasing planted on the paved outdoor area adjoining residence or in large groups in borders. Whether diminutive and demure…

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Growing onions

If you are thinking of sowing onion seeds in order to have tasty onions later in the year, then you will need to sow them now in a heated propagator, ready for planting out by the end of March. This is how champion onion growers manage to get large specimens for produce shows and exhibitions.…

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