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As the winter months approach, now is the perfect time to prepare your fruit trees for a healthy and abundant harvest next season. At GardenAdvice, we offer a comprehensive Winter Fruit Tree Pruning Service operates through the UK that not only takes the hard work off your hands but also gives you the chance to learn how to care for your fruit trees like a pro. Prune and Learn with an Expert Gardener Our Winter Fruit Tree Pruning Service is

With autumn in full bloom, we are finally starting to see the fall foliage we have all been waiting for. Colors are changing on trees and leaves are beginning to fall onto our beloved lawns and gardens we have worked all summer long for.

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As winter approaches, it’s the perfect time to give your fruit trees the care they need to thrive next season. Our expert team at GardenAdvice is here to help with a comprehensive winter pruning and maintenance service, designed to keep your apple, pear trees, and fruit bushes in optimal condition. For just £75, we’ll handle the pruning of larger trees. You can find more detai

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Wondering whether your favorite piece of Halloween decor is a bit too over the top to set out this year? As it turns out, many interior designers have a soft spot for seemingly tacky Halloween decorations, which can be styled to look extra festive and will bring the entire family joy.

Fabric designer Richard Smith and his husband Andrew Blackman's garden in East Sussex, where the mature trees were a particular draw

If you’ve gone to the time and effort to establish fig trees in your landscape—or you’re thinking about growing figs for the first time—you’ll need to understand just why, when, and how to prune a fig tree. Get it right and you can direct the new growth of your tree and make sure that new branches have ample access to fresh air and sunlight, so that they can be as productive as possible. The result? Year after year, you should be able to harvest some of the best fruit you’ve ever tasted from late summer and into fall. Growing figs at home While professional fig growers often train their plants to grow in a fan shape on a scaffold or espalier, be

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It wouldn’t be autumn without falling leaves. But after so many leaves start to pile up, what should you do with them in your yard? While many experts say you shouldn’t rake your leaves because moths and other beneficial bugs use them for laying eggs, home and garden pests like to call dying plant matter like fallen leaves home. Thus, it might be difficult to determine what exactly you should do with your fallen leaves.

Fall is the peak time to properly evaluate your home, so you know what to fix before winter approaches. From gardening to HVAC and plumbing, it's important to make sure your home is in good condition especially if you're hoping for a stress-free year ahead.

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Judging by many of our traditions, Southerners will always hedge our bets for a happy and successful life. From eating a big bowl of Hoppin' John on New Year's Day to burying a bottle of bourbon before the wedding day, we don't mind putting in the effort to bring on good tidings for the future. As take-charge as we are superstitious, why risk it when it's something that is relatively no trouble to do?

Not long after stating publicly on this blog that I didn’t expect to find room for more roses, it occurred to me, in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way, that extending the small bed behind the shed following removal of the tree stump might in fact just do this after all! The original bed housed rambling rose ‘Rosemarie Viaud’, which rambles over the shed roof, and repeat flowering old rose ‘Rose de Rescht’, but if the latter were replanted elsewhere there would be space for a trio of modern shrub roses, planted to together to give the suggestion of a large bush, as has recently been done in the rose garden.

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Autumn brings renewed vigor to the garden. Trees ignite in fiery hues. Asters and sunflowers erupt with autumn blooms. Even our vegetable gardens regain productivity. The crisp nights and cool days of autumn are perfect growing weather, making fall an ideal time to plant many types of trees in the landscape. Fall planting gives trees plenty of time to lay down roots before the next growing season begins. But not all trees benefit from fall planting. It’s important to know which trees you should plant in the fall, and which benefit from waiting until spring.

When blankets of green suddenly pop into a canvas of colors with the prettiest flowers, it is truly a sight to behold! The ground covers on this list aren’t just easy to grow; they thrive in the shade and produce mesmerizing blooms even in dimly lit spaces! Let’s dig in.

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Spring is the time when your garden springs back to life. One of the most delightful ways to get your garden ready for the season is by planting spring bulbs. Bulbs like tulips, daffodils, and crocuses not only bring visual delight but are also easy to care for. This guide will walk you through the process of planting bulbs, the various types available, and offer useful tips for enhancing your garden.

Whether you travel often, are convinced that you don't have a green thumb, or simply do not want to worry about maintaining live plants day after day, you may wish to incorporate some faux green friends into your home. Today, there are so many incredible, realistic-looking fake plants on the market, making it easy to enjoy a natural feel in your space without having to worry about a watering schedule.

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Green leaves are the energy engines that fuel our gardens. Without them there would be no flowers, no sugars for summer tomatoes, and no cooling or oxygenating the air while growing the mighty trees that give landscapes a sense of time and permanence. A gardener’s admiration of leaves can quickly fade, however, when faced with brown leaves blanketing everything from azaleas to annuals, and patios to pools. Leaves are suddenly a problem, something to manage—in other words, work.

Catalpa trees, with two species native to the United States, are known for their beautiful and plentiful blooms and for being the sole source of food for catalpa worms—caterpillars that strip the tree of its foliage and eventually become the catalpa sphinx moth.

Andrew Bunting is vice president of horticulture at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), where he promotes gardening for the greater good. PHS supports healthier neighborhoods through horticulture by cleaning and greening vacant lots, planting and maintaining street trees, partnering with community gardeners to share resources and conserve productive open space, and demonstrating ecologically sound gardening practices in public gardens throughout the greater Philadelphia area. Andrew’s extensive public gardening career includes time spent at Chicago Botanic Garden, Chanticleer, and 27 years at the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College. His Fine Gardening articles have covered topics like autumn-flowering trees, shrubs for shade, and selecting trees for structure. In this episode, he discusses the evolution of his home garden, the lessons learned from the many gardens his hands have touched, and the potential for making our shared landscapes more sustainable and inclusive.

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