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Over the coming weeks and months, join me as I develop our brand new garden. As a trained horticulturalist and garden designer, I'll be guiding you through the seasons ahead, sharing tips, successes and failures and exploring some of the new and inventive products on the market.

This year is the first spring season here at the Spear and Jackson garden, and I'm looking forward to cultivating a wide range of plants, flowers, vegetables and even some fruit.

Its a small garden, with a modern courtyard around one side, family lawn area with raised borders around the other and to the front, a modern take on a traditional cottage border.

Have a great gardening week.

Lee 'The Gardener'

Garden care Blog

Putting the garden to bed

October 14, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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Consider wrapping plants such as new Cordylines, but not with plastic or bubble wrap as these will make them sweat and rot. Firstly tie the leaves together with string or raffia and then wrap with horticultural fleece.

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Autumn Lawn Care

September 12, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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It seems to have warmed up slightly over the past week, but the rain we've had means that if you can cope with the mess, now is a great time to start your autumn lawn care programme.

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Plant Problems and Diseases

August 11, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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Its at this time of the year when most people retire to the garden after a hard days work, or at weekends, but this is also the time of year where garden pests like to bathe in the garden too.

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Lee visits a Woodland garden

July 26, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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This week we begin our tour of other peoples gardens, and the first stop for the next 3 weeks is Dawns garden. Set in a woodland environment, this north facing garden has pockets of special plants dotted here and there, with a wonderful use of colour repeated throughout each border. The rain makes it look like an autumn day, but it didn't put us off having a good look around.

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Building a garden from scratch

July 18, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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Another mixed bag of weather with a great day friday and a pretty miserable weekend. Now the tulips have totally died down I've removed the bulbs from the ground and put them in the shade of the cold frame to dry out. I'll store them till November in the garage and then re-plant them with a mixture of other pink varieties.

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Dealing with Slugs in the Garden

June 29, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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Holes in your Hostas, nibbles out of your lettuce leaves and trails on your patio. Sound familiar? The rains of late have brought our the dreaded slugs and snails en-masse, and getting rid of them is a real challenge.

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Watering and feeding the garden

June 20, 2011 Posted by Jo in Garden Care

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