Delphiniums are a traditional perennial for any cottage garden and add a bit bit of height to your borders and produce arguably some of the most stunning flowers of any perennial. If you already have these beautiful plants growing in your beds and borders, you can take cutting using a method known as basal cuttings to propagate new plants. You will be pleased to know it’s also super easy to do, and rewarding. When should…
Delphiniums are best planted outside and typically seen in larger gardens, but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow them in containers. In fact, growing Delphiniums in pots is quite easy, as long as you have a large enough container. Like most perennials, they prefer space to accommodate the shallow, wide root structures which is why it’s important to make sure that you pick a suitable container and ideally one that is deep so you can…
Some of the outdoor activities that make for good fun include walking or taking a hike. Seeing that normal shoes are unable to handle these activities, there is a need to find the right pair of footwear. Luckily for us, technology is more advanced and therefore we are able to produce specific footwear for specific activities. Walking boots are available in the market for both men and women. Today we are looking specifically at some…
A wormery is a unit designed to recycle your kitchen scraps. These stand-alone units are home to worms who eat through your kitchen scraps and eventually convert them into compost that you can use in your garden. The liquid runoff from your kitchen waste, especially vegetable scraps can be diluted and used as a fertiliser as well. You don’t have to order expensive kits online although it is still worth considering. You can make a…
One of the best ways to recycle your used kitchen waste is through a wormery. But what is a wormery? It is a purpose-built container in which a specific type of worm (brandling worms) lives. These worms consume your fruit and vegetable waste from the kitchen and then leave in their wake worm compost that is incredibly nutritious and perfect for your soil. Wormeries also create nutritious liquid fertilisers. Consider that your vegetable waste is…
As the season changes and your existing summer bedding plants die off, your search begins for the best winter plants to refill your summer hanging baskets with plants that will keep going throughout winter. There are very few that will make it through the winter, so you won’t have as many options as you did for your spring and summer baskets, but there are still some great basket plants that will weather winter, with the…
Pumpkins are a wonderful thing to grow if you have kids or grandkids coming around regularly. They are quite easy to cultivate, as long as you have a large patch of land, shelter from cold winds, and access to the sun. The sight of a colourful pumpkin come autumn will be well worth the investment and you can even use it in cooking so nothing should be wasted, even the seeds can be made into…
As the winter weather begins to take its toll and the cold weather weighs on you, rest assured you can add a few autumn and winter bedding plants to brighten your garden and your spirits. Well placed bedding plants can add colour and texture where it is otherwise lacking. So what plants are the best? Hardiness will vary in these plants so be aware of your climate and whether exceptionally cold temperatures is in your…
There are many ways that soil can change, and not always for the best. Thankfully there are ways that you can improve your garden soil to ensure it has all the nutrients needed for growing plants such as shrubs, perennials, trees and even vegetables and fruit bushes. Test the soil to determine what nutrients are missing and the pH It’s much easier to change the composition and nutrient profile than it is to change the…
When trees fall, or when you have them removed, the stumps often remain. It’s important to remove them to prevent root rot but mostly because of suckering. Suckering is where new shoots grow out of the trunk you left behind, trying desperately to become new trees. Now, if the tree stump is completely dead, you won’t run this risk, but in its place, you will have to contend with things like honey fungus. In the…
