Apple juice season
Turn your surplus apples into delicious apple juice by using a small fruit press or blender to extract the juice before drinking fresh or freezing. Autumn is a great time to plant new apple trees, and you’ll find trees to fit even the smallest garden here at the garden centre. If you don’t have room for a full-sized tree, train an [...]
What to do in the garden in September 2017
September is a crossover month in the garden. The borders are ablaze with colour, and you’re reaping the rewards of earlier hard work in overflowing baskets full of fresh fruit and veg: but it’s also time to start winding down and getting ready for next year. Here are this month’s garden jobs: General tasks: Pick up rose leaves affected by [...]
Plant of the Week: Aster
Multicoloured daisies are bursting open and filling borders with brilliant colour right now - for this is the season of the Aster, one of the most beautiful and reliable performers in the late-season garden. Now is the perfect time to add a few more, so drop into the garden centre and choose your favourite to take home. Asters do best [...]
Native species are facing extinction
Over one in ten native species of plant and wildlife in Britain are facing extinction, and about half are in decline according to the latest analysis of the state of wildlife in our country today. Is Britain's Wildlife facing Extinction? Over 50 plant conservation and wildlife organisations pooled resources to create the State of Nature report, monitoring almost 10,000 species [...]
Green walls and roof gardens
Green walls and roof gardens play a far greater part in improving city living than previously thought, according to a new research study. Improving City Living Researchers looked at five cities – Berlin, Hong Kong, Melbourne, London and Los Angeles – and measured the impact on noise, pollution and heat of green infrastructure such as vertical planting and green roofs. [...]
Sow winter lettuce
Sow winter lettuce while the weather is still mild to give them plenty of time to establish into young plants for growing outside under cloches in the garden or in borders or grow bags in the greenhouse. Sow your Lettuce Now Winter lettuces are bred to tolerate the vagaries of a British winter, allowing you to produce a generous supply [...]