Growing Hydrangeas in pots is relatively simple and in order to grow your Hydrangeas in a pot you need to make sure that the soil is well-drained, the location in which you place the pot receives the appropriate amount of sunlight, and the soil remains properly moist because they need regular water and will suffer quickly if they don’t get enough. Growing Hydrangeas in pots is a wonderful option for anyone who has a small…

If you have Hydrangeas, one important piece of information you need to know about is in regards to when you prune them, because some varieties produce their flowers on new wood and others on old wood. Generally, you prune Bigleaf or Florist Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) as the flowers fade and most other types of Hydrangeas, for example, the Oak Leaf and Snowball types are pruned late winter or early spring. If you have Lacecap Hydrangeas…

If you have Hydrangeas in your garden, you know that they produce beautiful flowers. Regardless of the variety you have, you are guaranteed to get large blooms that take on many different shades. If the flower colour isn’t to your preference, you can change the shade that your Hydrangeas produce. How to change the soil pH for Hydrangeas Changing the bloom colours from pink to blue or blue to pink is based on the soil…

If you have a large area of the garden to cover or are simply looking for plants to fill in some gaps between larger plants, it’s important to find the best plants for groundcover. These range from plants that grow wide without a great deal of height, for example, the evergreen shrub Vinca, to those that grow a little wider and a little higher, such as Cotoneaster horizontalis. They are a great way for suppressing…

Heuchera, also known as Coral Bells, is a traditional foliage plant and today it brings with it many different varieties, some of which come in the most amazing colours. Heuchera plants create round mounds and they have a woody crown at the base with bell-shaped flowers on the ends, which is where their common name of coral bells derives from. The leaves are evergreen in milder parts of the UK, even if they get covered…

Lupin flowers produce some of the most breathtaking masses of colour. They have sturdy, erect spikes from which flowers are produced and the fan-shaped foliage emerges horizontally. The flowers are very similar to those you would find with sweet peas because they grow in densely packed groups. The colour of the flower spikes ranges from pink to white, deep blue, purple and even yellow. This is a fairly long-lived perennial that doesn’t require a great…

Sweet peas are, as their name suggests, very sweet not only in production but in fragrance, however, it’s the annual varieties that are known for their amazing scent. You can also get perennial sweet peas that come back year after year, but many of these aren’t that fragrant. Thankfully growing them is quite simple. They are easy to grow from seed, planting in autumn and overwintering them in a cold greenhouse or cold frame. You…

A handful of tips to control the weeds in your garden before they become a problem Effective weed control is paramount and preventing weeds in the first place is actually much easier than trying to remove them. A few ways to help prevent weeds include using a mulch to block out sunlight, only watering the base of plants and not the whole flowerbed, spraying weeds when they are just seedlings instead of letting them establish,…

Hydrangeas are beautiful and rewarding shrubs to have in your garden. They are the quintessence of spring with their large blooms and overflowing growth. Knowing when and how to prune is important to keep these flowers blooming as much as possible. It’s also important to know that not all Hydrangeas should be pruned at the same time and pruning at the wrong time is could leave to your plant not flowering. It is actually one…