Yearly Archives: 2013

19 posts

Garden Maintenance Made Easy

Even if you love gardening, finding the time in your busy schedule to maintain your outdoor space can just end up being another thing to worry about. Nobody wants a scruffy, unkempt garden as it does absolutely nothing for your home’s kerb appeal, so we’ve got a few solutions for […]

GR are Winners at the Allotment Flower and Veg Show

Last year we entered the Flower and Vegetable Show at our allotments we won a couple of first prizes due to the fact we were novices and that there were no other entries! This year we were in with the big guys! Despite a pretty poor harvest this year we […]

Plants in our Garden

In June 2015 I moved house so I have begun a new post about the new garden and am closing down this post. Take a look at our new garden here. We moved into this house in 1999 and, being brand new, it had no garden at all. Over the […]

Allotment Update – June 2013

The weather has finally improved and although we are still getting some rainy days, we have also had quite a few very hot days with temperatures in the greenhouse going up well into the 30s. However, at the back of our plot there is a band of very tall, mature […]

Plant of the Month for June

Our Plant of the Month Papaver orientale or Oriental Poppy produces delicate flowers from May to July above bristly, grey-green leaves. The flower colours vary from white, through pink to red. They are a fast-growing plant and easy to grow, the pale papery flowers contrast especially well with purple foliage plants such as Heuchera.

Five Ways To Make Your Garden More Interactive

During the spring season, a lot of us like to take some time to work on our gardens, and indeed, this can be a very enjoyable and peaceful activity. With such a wide range of flowers and plants at their best in the spring, and with the weather warming up, it […]

New Additions to the Garden

When we moved in to this house in 1999 it was brand new and the builders had planted up a small flower bed in the front garden. The bed consisted of a tall, slim conifer and a prostrate conifer of some sort. The first plants to be planted in the […]

Controlling Japanese Knotweed: Save Your Property And Your Pocket

Matthew Jones and his fiancée Sue Banks had the value of their new four-bedroom house in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire drop from £305,000 to £50,000 as a result of the damage caused by Japanese Knotweed. The intruder spread along the brick walls, up through the floor and over skirting boards, the couple […]

Snowdrop Wendy’s Gold

My brother and I have been after this particular Snowdrop for years and last year I finally got my hands on some. Out of six bulbs three have flowered and are looking marvelous in the spring sunshine; take a look below. Click here to see more plants from our garden.