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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'

Pruning & cutting Blog

  • Trimming Hedges
    September 8, 2011 Posted by Jo in Pruning & Cutting
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/trimming-evergreen-hedges

    The next two or three weeks is the best time for cutting evergreen hedges such as yew, and conifers, to keep them nice and neat throughout the winter, but do it before the end of the month or they may well get scorched by the harsh winter.

  • Deadheading Roses
    July 11, 2011 Posted by Jo in Pruning & Cutting
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/deadheading-maintaining-secateurs

    A really relaxing week in the garden has meant just a few light jobs to be done. Deadheading the Roses and Lupins as well as the Delphiniums and faded flowers of the Hostas. A few weeds have germinated due to the rain but these were easily hoed off and shrivelled up in Saturdays sunshine.

  • Wisteria
    July 4, 2011 Posted by Jo in Pruning & Cutting
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/pruning-wisteria-spear-jackson-garden

    This week I’m giving the Wisteria on the front of the house its summer prune.  Removing the long whippy growths back to 5 buds will mean that in February when I reduce these same stems back to 2 buds, I should get plenty of flowers next May.  As the plant is relatively newly planted, there are not that many to remove, and I have tied most of them in to the wires to establish a good framework.

  • Topiary Shears
    April 28, 2011 Posted by Jo in Pruning & Cutting
    http://www.spear-and-jackson.com/tool-week-topiary-shears
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