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Gardening Calendar 2nd week June
If you are new to gardening it can all seem a bit complex with all the latin names and endless different tools. Well help is at hand in the form of a one day gardening course from GardenAdvice especially designed to get you off to a flying start. We have courses on general gardening, growing organic veg and wildlife gardening. For more details click here
Winter is an ideal time for planing for the coming seasons. Why not organise a GardenAdvice advisor visit to your garden with our visiting advice service. For more details click here Summer is also a great time to design or re-design your garden. The GardenAdvice team have created our free online garden design course to help you design your own garden by teaming you up with one of our designers.Working together you can create a garden plan and overall action plan to create the garden you have always dreamed about owning. For more details click here
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Garden Plants - Wisteria Climbers early December is a good time to inspect your climbers and tie up or train any new growth from the leading shoots. This will be the last growth made this year and its good to tie it in before this new growth starts to harden of for the winter. Remember to tie the stems loosely as the stems will swell and expand quickly in the spring and you do not want to damage the stems. For further information click here
Lawns On dry days its a good time to brush over the lawn to help spread any http://www.gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/lawns/index.html
Planting new hedges Planning to plant new hedges now is the time to consider which hedge you wish to plant and carry out the preparation. Remember the key to getting a new hedge to establish its self and grow as quickly as possible is to dig the area and add loads of well rotted organic mater such as garden compost or well rotted farm yard manure. Glasshouse Other jobs in the garden from November
Acres
September is a good time of year to check for dead wood in acers particular the smaller varieties such acer palmatum. Its easy to see the dead stems or buds as they have no leaves whilst in the winter the plant will all look the same in its dormant state.
If your not sure before pruning a stem on a acer palmatum. or a similar plant lightly rub a small area of the stem with your thumb nail to remove part of the bark or stem covering, if its green then leave the stem to see if it re - shoots as this indicates that the stem is still alive and might make a recovery
Roses
Now through to the later autumn is a good time of year to plant pot grown roses. if you are planting in a position were a rose has grown previously to avoid rose sickness try applying some Mycorrhizal Fungi from Root grow.
As your early roses start to finish flowering its a good time to cut back any tall stems by half to help prevent the plant becoming rocked by the early autumn winds. Later in winter or early spring you can carry out the main pruning. Its also worth checking for sucker stems growing from the roses root stock these should be followed back to the rootstock and broken out trying to remove the base bud in doing so. The sucker stems can be identified by the fact that they have different leaves to the main plant and grow from below the bud graft on the main roses stem.
Semi rip stem cuttings from shrubs
Early September is the best time to take semi ripe stem cuttings from a number of shrubs including hebe, weigela outdoor fuchsia. Taken just as the current years stem growth starts to harden off its a quick and inexpensive way to propagate a number of common garden shrubs.
Laying garden plants
Layering hard to propagate plants as this time of year such as rhododendrons and clematis is another good method of producing some more plants for your garden or to swap.
Feeding spring flowering Azaleas and rhododendrons
At this time of year Azaleas and rhododendrons start to produce the buds that will become next spring and early summers flowers so its a good idea to help them with a dressing of plant food
Final cut back of the lavender
Lavender - as the lavender flowers come to an end now is the time to remove them stems with a light pruning, remember not to cut the lavender too far back ideally just trimming the green growth and not cutting back into the woody growth as this can create bare patched on the plant.
Check your Variegated trees and shrubs
Variegated trees and shrubs - Now is the time of year when you should inspect your Variegated trees and shrubs to see if any of the stems or branches have reverted to full green leaves. If found they should be pruned at as they can grow a lot stronger than the intended or propagated form of the species and take over the plant.
New hedges
With autumn approaching its a good time of year to plan to plant new hedges. Most benefit from being planted in the autumn especially beech hedging which does not seem to grow away as quickly if planted after Xmas. The key to establishing a hedge quickly and getting it to grow to the intended height as quickly as possible is in the preparation. Ideally this means digging over the planting area and adding lots of well rotted organic mater such as well rotted garden compost or farm yard manure.
Seed collecting
One very worth while task at this time of year is the collection of seeds from your plants such as Aquilegia, foxloves, Buddleia etc and a number of other plants. The seed can be stored in envelopes and sown in the following spring. This is a great project you can carry out with young gardeners.
Lawn pests
Lawn pests if you have or suspect you might have problems with leather jackets ( Daddy long legs ) or Chafer grubs in your lawn now is the time to start biological control with the use of nematodes. Ideal they need to be applied as quickly as possible after delivery into a damp or well water lawn.
Difficult weeds
If you have difficult weeds such as couch grass, ground elder and horse tail Early to mid September is the time to apply the last application of weed killer such as " roundup "
Vine Weevil in pots
Check for vine Weevil in your indoor and outdoor pot plants vine weevils and apply nematodes
Buddlia pruning
Buddleia if yours has finished flowering now is a good time to prune it back to produce some hardwood cuttings
perennial plants
This time of year its useful to mark with a small cane and label some of the perennial plants that will die back first such as dicentra. This can help you later in the autumn when you are dividing your perennial plants or digging over and mulching the borders.
Autumn lawn maintenance
Autumn is the best time to make major improvements to garden lawns. Whilst the soil is still warm from the summers sun its easy to get a high germination rate with newly sown grass seed.
The complete autumn lawn treatment should include spiking or hollow coring, scarifying. over seeding. top dressing and feeding.
Acers
November and December is a good time of year to check for dead wood in acers particular the smaller varieties such acer palmatum. Its easy to see the dead stems or buds as they have no leaves whilst in the winter the plant will all look the same in its dormant state.
If your not sure before pruning a stem on a acer palmatum. or a similar plant lightly rub a small area of the stem with your thumb nail to remove part of the bark or stem covering, if its green then leave the stem to see if it re - shoots as this indicates that the stem is still alive and might make a recovery
Roses
Now through to the later autumn is a good time of year to plant pot grown roses. if you are planting in a position were a rose has grown previously to avoid rose sickness try applying some Mycorrhizal Fungi from Root grow.
As your early roses start to finish flowering its a good time to cut back any tall stems by half to help prevent the plant becoming rocked by the early autumn winds. Later in winter or early spring you can carry out the main pruning. Its also worth checking for sucker stems growing from the roses root stock these should be followed back to the rootstock and broken out trying to remove the base bud in doing so. The sucker stems can be identified by the fact that they have different leaves to the main plant and grow from below the bud graft on the main roses stem.
Semi rip stem cuttings from shrubs
Early December is the best time to take semi ripe stem cuttings from a number of shrubs including hebe, weigela outdoor fuchsia. Taken just as the current years stem growth starts to harden off its a quick and inexpensive way to propagate a number of common garden shrubs.
Laying garden plants
Layering hard to propagate plants as this time of year such as rhododendrons and clematis is another good method of producing some more plants for your garden or to swap.
Feeding spring flowering Azaleas and rhododendrons
At this time of year Azaleas and rhododendrons start to produce the buds that will become next spring and early summers flowers so its a good idea to help them with a dressing of plant food
Final cut back of the lavender
Lavender - as the lavender flowers come to an end now is the time to remove them stems with a light pruning, remember not to cut the lavender too far back ideally just trimming the green growth and not cutting back into the woody growth as this can create bare patched on the plant.
Check your Variegated trees and shrubs
Variegated trees and shrubs - Now is the time of year when you should inspect your Variegated trees and shrubs to see if any of the stems or branches have reverted to full green leaves. If found they should be pruned at as they can grow a lot stronger than the intended or propagated form of the species and take over the plant.
New hedges
With autumn approaching its a good time of year to plan to plant new hedges. Most benefit from being planted in the autumn especially beech hedging which does not seem to grow away as quickly if planted after Xmas. The key to establishing a hedge quickly and getting it to grow to the intended height as quickly as possible is in the preparation. Ideally this means digging over the planting area and adding lots of well rotted organic mater such as well rotted garden compost or farm yard manure.
Seed collecting
One very worth while task at this time of year is the collection of seeds from your plants such as Aquilegia, foxloves, Buddleia etc and a number of other plants. The seed can be stored in envelopes and sown in the following spring. This is a great project you can carry out with young gardeners.
Lawn pests
Lawn pests if you have or suspect you might have problems with leather jackets ( Daddy long legs ) or Chafer grubs in your lawn now is the time to start biological control with the use of nematodes. Ideal they need to be applied as quickly as possible after delivery into a damp or well water lawn.
Difficult weeds
If you have difficult weeds such as couch grass, ground elder and horse tail Early to mid September is the time to apply the last application of weed killer such as " roundup "
Vine Weevil in pots
Check for vine Weevil in your indoor and outdoor pot plants vine weevils and apply nematodes
Buddlia pruning
Buddleia if yours has finished flowering now is a good time to prune it back to produce some hardwood cuttings
Perennial plants
This time of year its useful to mark with a small cane and label some of the perennial plants that will die back first such as dicentra. This can help you later in the autumn when you are dividing your perennial plants or digging over and mulching the borders.
Autumn lawn maintenance
Autumn is the best time to make major improvements to garden lawns. Whilst the soil is still warm from the summers sun its easy to get a high germination rate with newly sown grass seed.
The complete autumn lawn treatment should include spiking or hollow coring, scarifying. over seeding. top dressing and feeding.
September is a good time of year to check for dead wood in acers particular the smaller varieties such acer palmatum. Its easy to see the dead stems or buds as they have no leaves whilst in the winter the plant will all look the same in its dormant state.
If your not sure before pruning a stem on a acer palmatum. or a similar plant lightly rub a small area of the stem with your thumb nail to remove part of the bark or stem covering, if its green then leave the stem to see if it re - shoots as this indicates that the stem is still alive and might make a recovery
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