May 15, 2023 Posted in: Gardening Know-how Boxwood moth caterpillars – also called boxwood moth caterpillars – can strip the leaves of your boxwood plant or hedge. In my neighborhood there are rows of dead boxwood hedges in many front yards. All the leaves are brown and if you look closely you can often still … Read more
May 20, 2023 Posted in: Gardening Know-how Here are 5 top insider tips Choose the best plants for your garden. I visited multi-award-winning nursery Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants to ask Rosy Hardy what the experts look for when buying plants. Rosy also has a YouTube channel all about plants, Rosy Hardy Gardening. Award-winning plant breeder … Read more
July 22, 2023 Posted in: Gardening Know-how Look at plants in your garden and ask yourself why aren’t they blooming? I am. And I discovered a surprising reason why my cosmos plants don’t even have buds. To find out what’s stopping garden plants from blooming, I asked local flower grower Sue Oriel of Country Lane … Read more
March 1, 2024 Posted in: Gardening Know-how Before you plant anything in a shady gardenYou need to know what type of shade you have. Plant expert Stephen Ryan is one half of the YouTube channel The Horti-Culturalists alongside Matthew Lucas. He also has a nursery called Dicksonia Rare Plants. He says people often ask about … Read more