Your gardens should be looking full and colourful at this time of year. We are mid-way through summer and perennials, summer shrubs, annuals and your biennial plants are in full bloom. Hopefully, too your vegetable plot is bursting with delicious fresh produce. If you have a sunny south or south-west facing garden or any sunny …
First of all what are Biennial plants? For those of you who are wondering, they are plants which have a two-year life cycle. During their first year, they concentrate their energy into growing only the roots, stems and leaves. They require a cold period and therefore go into dormancy during the winter months. During the …
What I love about this time of year is the anticipation of seeing all the glorious summer perennial plants affording us sumptuous garden displays. Winter seems such a long time ago and the lovely summer months are ahead of us. Most of the spring flowers have gone over. Spring bulbs are spent and taking a …
Most of us will recognise all the Spring bulbs, daffodils, tête-à-tête, snowdrops, crocus, aconites, hyacinth… and so on. But what do we have when they are finished and borders or pots are full of spent flowers and leaves? There are so many beautiful plants we can incorporate into the borders and one of the essentials …
It’s the time of year when we are starting to plant out indoor sown annuals, direct sow some more and happily watching perennial plants popping up. Back in the autumn and winter we put our minds to what we wanted to grow this year, browsed through plant and seed catalogues that are full of colourful …
Don’t you just love April? I do. Each day we gain more daylight time, gardens are lush and colourful, blossom is blooming in the hedgerows, fruit trees are popping, buzzing with pollinators, it’s a wonderful time of year. Now is the time to sow the seeds for all summer blooming flowers. On warm, sunny days …
What are Perennial Plants? Perennials are plants that live for 2 years or more. They flower each year usually in spring and summer following a period of dieback and dormancy. Some plants that are perennial in their native habitat are grown by gardeners as annuals due to the differences in climates and locales. There are …
