Tag: gardens buckinghamshire

  • Front garden make-over in Leighton Buzzard

    Front garden make-over in Leighton Buzzard

    A few months ago I was tasked with creating a front garden in Leighton Buzzard. The brief was a modern, clean and low maintenance look that would cope in the wind, as it is situated in a bit of a wind tunnel. Starting off as long grass, with poorly placed utillity covers in the middle…

  • Hire an expert: Saving your Box hedges from Box Tree Moth

    Hire an expert: Saving your Box hedges from Box Tree Moth

    Box tree moth caterpillar (Cydalima perspectalis), also known as Box moth, Box tree moth and Buxus moth is an all-too-common pest of the humble box hedge, Buxus sempervirens. And right now its active in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Having dealt with it for clients in the last week I thought it was a great time to…

  • Hire an expert: Enhance your planting

    Hire an expert: Enhance your planting

    With the cold winter and then extremely wet spring we have had, it isn’t at all surprising that plants are suffering in borders. Every garden I have visited over the last few months has lost plants – some that are usually hardy – to the bad weather. So now the growing season is in full…

  • Protect our wildlife: Avoid hedge cutting until end of Summer

    Protect our wildlife: Avoid hedge cutting until end of Summer

    We are well into the growing season now with summer right around the corner. You might be looking for a gardener to cut your hedge now its in full growth, and while you have come to the right place, it is the wrong time. Here’s why… Firstly, the law as set out by the Wildlife…

  • Hire an expert: Save money, have a better garden

    Hire an expert: Save money, have a better garden

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    It is all too frequently that I visit peoples gardens and hear that a good gardener is hard to find. As you have found me its likely you have found me via one of the professional bodies I belong too, such as the Gardeners Guild or Chartered Institute of Horticulture. I joined these professional associations…

  • Heatwave gardening: Tips, tricks and drought tolerant plants

    Heatwave gardening: Tips, tricks and drought tolerant plants

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    Its been quite hot, it has to be said. The aim for this post is to give you some practical ideas, and some theory behind looking after your Buckinghamshire garden during the summer heat, and what you can plant that tolerates these conditions. Lets start off with watering and a myth to bust! Watering during…