Pruning your climbing roses is a good way to ensure that your plant will produce flowers and remain strong each subsequent season. If you don’t prune your climbing roses they will inevitably become a tangled mess of branches and they won’t produce an adequate number of flowers. Most people consider this a complicated process but if you follow this guide you can learn how to prune a climbing rose easily. How to prune a climbing…
Knowing how to prune roses is important for anyone who plans to integrate roses into their garden landscape, not just because it helps keep the rose bushes in line, but because it can encourage more beautiful results. You shouldn’t be intimidated by the prospect of pruning. There are very specific rules that are typically applied to specific types of roses that are designed to get the best out of each variety. Casual gardeners who simply…
Camellias are beautiful trees and shrubs that give you glossy foliage all year round with flowers appearing during the colder seasons. People who cultivate them know that the most common include the Japonicas and Sasanquas but there are also fun hybrid options out there that achieve various shapes, colours and unusual growth habits. Typically Camellias will do just fine when they are left alone and they thrive in decent growing conditions such as well-drained acidic…
This is a large genus of shrubs that are very versatile and beautiful. Many of the shrubs are native to California which is why the plant is colloquially referred to as the California Lilac. Of course, this name is a bit misleading because it is not a lilac at all. This Ceanothus bush grows between 30 and 180cm tall, and some varieties will grow into a mound shape while others grow prostrate and turn into…
Japanese knotweed is probably the most evasive weed in the UK, in this article we look at how to tackle it and eventually kill it using, tarps to shut out light, Glyphosate-based herbicides to help kill the plants down to the root, and simply digging it up. All methods need to be used in conjunction with each other and it takes several years to hopefully eradicate it from your garden, but it takes a lot…
