If you are growing a Bleeding Hearts, (also known as Dicentra) you no doubt know how beautiful the delicate heart-shaped flowers are and have certainly seen evidence as to how the plant gets its name. Bleeding Hearts are woodland herbaceous perennials and they typically grow in a forest along the forest floor often protected from direct sunlight by the canopy of forest trees. They only survive in areas with good soil conditions, cooler temperatures and…
If you’ve put a great deal of thought, effort and time into your garden, wouldn’t you be a little disappointed if the plants, vegetables and fruit trees didn’t do as well as you’d hoped? Perhaps you need a multi-purpose compost to deliver nutrients to your plants and to hold the water in so they grow up strong and healthy. Compost is a growing medium that improves the condition of your plants by giving organic material…
Phlox is a long-lasting plant that will flower every year, producing a variety of colourful flowers that attract lots of pollinating insects including bees and butterflies alike. They grow very well in the right conditions but in some cases, they grow so well that you need to divide them. Every few years you will notice that your plant stops being as prolific at flowering and this is a good indication that it’s time to divide…
Daphne’s are a wonderful plant to grow for providing extra colour during the winter, especially when February hits and there is limited colour elsewhere in your garden. But it’s not just the winter colour that makes this plant so popular it’s in fact, the beautiful scent that goes with it. These are great shrubs to place near paths or doorways because of the sweet fragrance they offer as well as the evergreen nature of them…
Not all hedges need to require hours of work to maintain them and many require limited pruning too. In fact, if you’re short on time the best hedges are those that are low maintenance and slow-growing although they can take a little longer to reach your desired size. The reason you may want a slow-growing hedge is that it will mostly take care of itself and you won’t have to prune it all the time.…
