Category: Seasonal
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Leaves, lawns & petrol blowers
A Persian Ironwood, Parrotia persica & Handkerchief Tree, Davidia involucrata, (a common name that does not really do it justice) looking spectacular in one of the gardens we look after in the Forest of Dean. If there is one job we carry out as gardeners that creates as much controversy as any, its clearing autumn…
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Planting Autumn Bulbs
Wick, South Gloucestershire, planting bulbs for spring flowering. Naturalising Daffodils in a large expanse of lawn should provide a good display this spring. Some areas of this lawn are naturally more prone to waterlogging so white Camassia’s and Snake’s-head Fritillary were selected as good species to naturalise. Not too late to be planting Tulips and…
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Maintaining a Victorian Shrubbery
Edwards Garden Services has been working on the restoration and maintenance of this Grade II registered Victorian shrubbery since 2011. From the intial work focusing on restoration – the grove was a dense thicket, impenetrable and dark, the individual specimens lost on the undergrowth, work is slowly changing to a balance of routine maintenance. Variously…
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A Hedgerow of Apples
A dozen or so heritage varieties of apple, grown on semi-dwarfing rootstocks, trained as cordons – a great alternative to fences. I grow this particular trained hedgerow along a front garden boundary between two properties close to Eastville Park, Bristol. The trained fruit trees are pruned just twice a year – summer for fruit, winter…
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Seasonal Border Maintenance
Gone are the days of ‘putting the garden to bed for winter’ (I’ve always disliked that approach). Even if we are not poking around the borders in the depths of winter, it is there, to be seen, and to be enjoyed both by us and the birds and bugs foraging amongst the seed heads and…