Lavender is a wonderful herb that offers beautiful purple flowers, heavy fragrance and invites bees and butterflies to your garden. It is incredibly popular when used in its dry form for different potpourri purposes or in sachets and it’s also perfect for cooking recipes too. A native Mediterranean plant, there are plenty of environments where Lavender simply won’t thrive as effectively. In some cases, you might have soil that is simply too dense to support…

Lavender is a very fragrant herb that produces beautiful purple flowers and attracts bees and butterflies like crazy. If you already have Lavender in your garden, be it in the ground or in a pot, you might want to propagate more plants from your existing plant. Most gardeners do that by way of taking cuttings but you can achieve equal success by growing them from seed, it just takes a little more time and patience.…

Never prune a conifer unless you really need to and only lightly trim into new foliage Pruning your conifers incorrectly cannot only damage the appearance of the plant but the health of the tree. To that end, you need to understand how to properly prune and when to prune. Conifers fall into one of two categories, the first of which is called Whorl-Branched and the second is called Non-Whorled or Random Branched. This may seem…

When you are planting conifers in your garden it is, of course, important to make sure you know the best time of year to plant conifers so that they can get as successful a start as possible. You can actually plant them in a container in your garden at any time of year (if needed) with spring probably being the best time. Conifers with a rootball that have been lifted from the ground can be…

Those with smaller gardens can still benefit from the verdant growth of conifers by selecting slow growing dwarf conifers. Small conifers offer the same variety as traditional plants but in a dwarf option that is perfect for small gardens, rockeries and containers. They can also make a great choice for using as a groundcover. Below are 10 of our top recommended dwarf conifers for smaller gardens. 1. Juniperus ‘Old Gold’ One of the more popular…