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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'

Grow your own Blog

  • Hosta - herbaceous perennial
    October 14, 2011 Posted by Jo in Grow Your Own
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/how-divide-herbaceous-perennials

    This week I've been dividing up herbaceous perennials, including the over crowded Astilbes, Hostas, Lupins, Delphiniums and some of the grasses.  When divided in autumn herbaceous perennials (those which die down to ground level at the end of each year) should establish a new root system over the next few months while the soil is still warm. 

  • Strawberries
    August 10, 2011 Posted by Jo in Grow Your Own
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/strawberry-propagation-woodland-garden

    Now is the perfect time of year to begin the propagation of semi ripe cuttings.  They sound complicated, but they are not really.  They can be taken from any plant (normally a shrub) which has produced some growth this year which has started to harden at the base.  Examples include Lavender, Box, Berberis, Potentilla and Fuchsia.

  • COLD FRAMES
    May 16, 2011 Posted by Jo in Grow Your Own
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/spear-jackson-how-cold-frames

    Before I go to Chelsea, there's just time to build up my propagation house, perfect for protecting and growing on seedlings and cuttings.

  • Wicker Planters
    May 16, 2011 Posted by Jo in Grow Your Own
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/tool-week-wicker-planters

    Spear & Jacksons new Wicker planters, so easy to put together and plant and great because you can move it around to suit the plants.

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