Today I removed 3 barrow loads of Verbena bonariensis from just one border. Now there’s plenty of potential to plant new plants. We’ve dug over some of the area, although it was extremely hard work, the ground is still very,

It seems that everyone on Twitter is waxing lyrical about ordering their new seasons bulbs and getting excited at the thought of planting them. Am I the only one who hates planting bulbs? My first problem is that the ground

At a rough guess I would say that about 1/4 of my time in the garden is spent removing self sown seedlings which pop up in places where they are unwanted. Chief culprits are aquilegias followed closely by verbena bonariensis

Most of the plants we sell at the nursery are planted in our garden in the heavy clay soil which is either bone dry (this last few weeks) or squelchy wet (as it was for most of last year). We

I’ve just come back from a few days in Turkey and was looking forward to seeing a good display from all the asters in the garden.  Some are almost there but the promising buds on most plants are refusing to open.

I have been avidly watching the weather forecasts to see when it will rain. I don’t want rain on Saturday when I’m having a plant stall at Priors Marston Manor, that would be too maddening. It looks as if it

I had a good day yesterday, this is not something I say very often. I did the watering first, a boring repetitive chore. Then I got a number of things done which had been on my mind for a day

I had a day off yesterday to see a friend who was over from Portugal, to see my brother and a quick visit to my parents. Lunch was had at a large garden centre (this is something I rarely do)

This I had a quick look round part of the garden and noticed an odd weed here and there, also one or two things which needed dead-heading, not much to do, or so I thought. A little later I went to