psychedelic spring: in praise of anthocyanins

For many gardeners the cold weather signals that the time has come to pack up their tools until spring, however that does not have to be the case.

How to Naturalize Spring Flower Bulbs in the Landscape

Ready for spring 2024? Our new autumn range is here, ready to help you grow the spring garden of your dreams. But what will you grow? Garden trends change every year, and we love to stay up to date! Here are just a few garden trends we expect to see in spring next year.  Colour Coordinated  Purples with pinks, yellows with oranges, whites with green.

Rhododendrons have many praiseworthy characteristics.

Abeliophyllum distichum also called White Forsythia is more refined than traditional yellow Forsythia to which it is distantly related, both being part of the Olive family.

These photos are from Magdalen College Oxford University.

Greens are vibrant in your garden during spring and with careful plant selection good foliage can be grown throughout the seasons.

It looks like a good year for ‘Blossom Dearie’ and no more so than with Syringa the various Lilacs in the varied shades of lilac and white.

The two best complimentary colours are Red and Green.  There are many ways this is demonstrated in the spring garden and they will be sure to draw compliments. The Peonies are just opening under a bit of shelter and shade.

Forsythia is a genus of spring flowering shrubs that burst into bloom in early March before their leaves appear. However, they are best known by their common name of yellowbells. Yellowbells (Forsythia x intermedia) are deciduous, mounding shrubs that can grow as large as 10 feet tall by 10 feet wide. Many newer mid-sized cultivars may grow to 5 feet tall by 6 feet wide, yet some recent releases only grow to 1½ by 3 feet at maturity. These smaller cultivars are perfect as accent plants in cottage style, perennial landscapes, and the faster growing, larger cultivars make excellent, impervious hedges. They are deer resistant, make nice nesting sites for songbirds, are easy to grow, and require little maintenance.

It’s the end of June, and my vegetable garden looks rough. The heat and the insects have wreaked havoc on my once beautiful Garden of Eden. This is the perfect time to rejuvenate some of the crops using a technique call ratooning.

Winter is the perfect time to install a drainage solution to remove standing water in the yard by adding surface drains, French drains, or both. Removing excess standing water helps with disease prevention in turf. Many turf diseases are made worse by prolonged wet conditions.