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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' |
Strawberry Propagation in the 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.
They are easy to take and mean you can multiply the amount of plants you have in the garden and even give some away to friends. Follow the 'how to' video guide on at the bottom of this page to see how you can propagate more cuttings at this time of year.
If you've ever wanted to create your own stately Lavender hedge, or grow a topiary cone from a cutting, give it a go this year. Once you have taken your cuttings, simply place them in the cold frame, keep watered and then pot up next spring, ready to plant out the following summer.
Tool of the week
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Propagation House
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PROPAGATION OF STRAWBERRIES
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