Getting Your Sweet Peas to Reflower
Sweet peas ( Lathyrus odoratus) are such good value for money. The soft pastel colours and the incredible fragrance of these Summer beauties make sweet peas worthy of your efforts and they are so easy to grow.The only thing to … Continue reading →
Read This ArticleEasy and Cheap Ways to add Colour to your Garden
Here you see the results of five minutes work and a cost of less than £2. I originally bought a packet of Californian Poppy seeds from my local supermarket some four years ago, came home and promptly put the seed … Continue reading →
Read This ArticleHow to Get the Most from your Fragrant Shrubs?
How can you prune your summer-flowering shrubs in order to increase fragrant flowering? Here we see a Philadelphus ( Mock Orange ) in full flower. In order to keep getting good annual flowering from your deciduous summer-flowering shrubs, it pays … Continue reading →
Read This ArticlePlanting an Angelica
Here you can see me planting one of three Angelicas. We were recently given these wonderful late-flowering beauties as a wedding gift so we never had any labels and I think they are Angelica gigas, a native of Japan that … Continue reading →
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