An Englishman's Garden Adventures
Gardening tips and techniques, including: pruning, planting and vegetable growing.
The second installment of the Spring Garden Diary covers April to June, highlighting the garden’s vibrant growth. Key activities included mowing, pruning, planting, and DIY projects. Each month features notable plants and maintenance tasks, culminating in a beautifully maintained and flourishing summer garden.
Here are some of my gardening adventures during the first quarter of the year: seasonal observations, new plants in, old plants out, redesigns, renovations, plannings, musings, gardening experiments, clear-outs and lots of little triumphs. Oh, and some lovely plant photos of course. All good, not-so-clean fun.
Having neglected my pond for the past decade, it was in desperate need of a some attention. Here’s how I cleaned it out, and how I divided and replanted the water lilies.
Here’s how (and why) I planted crocus bulbs in aquatic baskets with chicken wire lids.
Planting spring bulbs “in-the-green” or as pot-grown plants has many advantages. Here are my thoughts and recent experiments…
In the third post in this series, I share some fascinating stories of how different plants have contributed to my garden through self-sowing.
In this post I look at the kinds of variation that can occur when garden plants self-seed, and show how an understanding of these processes can be put to use, enhancing your gardening pleasure.
Allowing garden plants to self-seed can add a whole new level of interest to your garden. Here are the best and worst self-seeders in my garden.
Step by step guide to dividing lily turf (liriope muscari) to create new plants.
Take a look at how I am using White Starflower (Ipheion uniflorum ‘Alberto castillo’) to extend the perennial container season.
Having the right kinds of plants in the right kinds of place at the right time of year can increase … read more
Late December or early January are good times to cut back the foliage of your hybrid Hellebores. The photo above … read more