June: Bedding Plants

June: Bedding Plants

As soon as the chance of frost is over, it is time to get out in the garden and plant some colourful bedding plants that will give you a beautiful display all summer and well into the autumn. Garden centres like ours have a vast choice, now take some time when...

April: Spring in Full Bloom

April is the real start for the amateur gardener’s enjoyment. The spring flowers are in full bloom, the lawn has been cut a few times giving off that wonderful scent of fresh mown grass and the trees are coming into life with bright green clean leaves. Spring beauty...

March: Moss Free Lawns

We in this area are fortunate not to be affected by flooding as in other areas of the country but the soil has at times become saturated with water for very long periods of time. These conditions together with a period of warm mild weather will encourage the growth of...

Febuary: Sowing Seeds

We stand in the warm looking out on the garden in winter with very little colour, waiting in anticipation of the spring and summer to come. These days with their long cold nights, switch off the television and settle into a comfy armchair and study a few seed...

December: Joel Poinsett

Since mid-June, the main crop on our nursery has been the Poinsettia, 1,500 of them for the Christmas festive season and many millions more are being produced and sold throughout the world. As I was tending my crop of Poinsettia, I got to thinking about the man who...