The dandelion is usually regarded as a nuisance but in the past has been used for the treatment of the liver, kidney, blood disorders and some older country folk say that it will ease rheumatic pain. In medieval Latin its name was dens leonis ( lion's tooth) and this became dent-de-lion in French. It [...]
Now is the time to begin to cut the lawn and to get into a routine. Scarification this is a great time to prune your grasses and remove thatch and moss. If you do this apply a good balanced feed afterwards, if you are doing renovation or maintenance scarification, apply a moss treatment also. You [...]
You should graft apple and pear trees. Prune roses. Clip ivy growing on walls. Protect early fruit blossom. Sow lettuces outdoors. Sow broad beans and peas outdoors. It is a good time for turf laying. We can help you with any or all of these jobs
While working in gardens, we come across many old bygones and objects from all periods. Here are just a few of the Victorian jars and bottles we have discovered, which in the past had been throw away, at the end of the garden or buried as rubbish. We always show what we discovered to our [...]
March is a great time for laying turf and repairing those damaged lawns. This is a service which we can supply give us a ring or send an email for a free quote. Other jobs you can be doing is sow sweet peas outdoors, also bedout wall flowers like Forget -me-knots and many other spring [...]
My great grandmother would never take less than 13 primroses into the house for fear that this would stop the hens laying! Once you have a enough flowers they can be chopped up and mixed into boiling mutton fat to produce a soothing ointment which healed cuts and bruises or anyone with a sore eye [...]
Digging and trenching can continue throughout December but not when soil is frozen or very wet. Prune bush and standard roses also continue to prune fruit trees and bushes of all kind. If the weather is very cold close up greenhouses earlier in the afternoon to keep off the worst frost, but a few degrees [...]
The first Snowdrops are beginning to appear, this flower has a special connection to Epsom. Snowdrops were picked in the spring from the estate of Lord Rosebery off Chalk Lane and sold in bunches in Epsom for the Least We Forget Fund to aid wounded soldiers from the First World War. This began in 1919 [...]
You may not want to have to think about the garden over Christmas but now is the time to plan for the better weather. Pot up some primulas or polyanthus as there is nothing more cheerful! All you need to get started is a wide, shallow pot to put half a dozen in. Plant them [...]
This fascinating plant is a partial parasite which produces suckers that grow into the host tree. Many people believe that mistletoe has magical powers and is venerated in Africa , Japan and New Guinea , it plays an important part in fertility ceremonies as it was believed that women who wanted to conceive should wear [...]
