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The Garden
The patio and garden - not forgetting the dogs, of course!
(click on image to see a larger one)Here's a few tips for now:
1. Poppies - To make a good display of poppies, collect the seeds from the plants as soon as they are ripe and scatter them where you want them. This seems to make a better display of flowers than leaving them to dry.
2. Pruning Wisteria – We had a huge wisteria plant that never flowered. It covered a large shed, sides and top, with foliage all summer but there were no flowers to be seen. Then we pruned the whips in the summer to keep them under control, and pruned the whole tree back to two buds per stem on New Year’s Day – it took us all day to finish it. That May the flowers were fabulous and you could stand in the middle of the lawn in the early evening, close your eyes and know that the beautiful smell of wisteria is the perfume of Paradise.
3. Feeding in the Spring – Feed your acid loving plants in the early spring with Sulphate of Iron and just watch those rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias come into blossom.
More tips to follow one day soon....
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