Tag: qualified gardener

  • Save our wildlife: Choosing plants for pollinators this Summer

    Save our wildlife: Choosing plants for pollinators this Summer

    We hear the plight of the bee on a regular basis, but it isn’t just bee’s that pollinate our flowers, fruit and veg crops. Hoverflies, Moths, Beetles, Butterflies and even Wasps are essential for pollination in the UK. Almost all flowering plants are in some way attractive to pollinators, as if they weren’t, the plants…

  • 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: 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: Wildflower meadows

    Hire an expert: Wildflower meadows

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    If you are interested in having some wildflowers in your garden, then well done you, its a great option even for smaller gardens. The benefits outweigh the drawbacks with biodiversity gains likely and pollinators attracted to your new meadow. But you may have bought a packet of seed, followed the instructions and then got very…

  • 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…