To help you make your garden a haven for wildlife, try planting any (or all) of these plants. Our top 5 plants for wildlife are evergreens, providing covered shelter for birds and small animals during the cold winter months and when used as hedging, provide dense cover for nesting wildlife. Our best [...]
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Prunus Lusitanica Angustifolia – also known as Portuguese Laurel is often overlooked when choosing a shrub for evergreen hedging. Prunus Laurocerasus the Cherry Laurel or Photinia Red Robin are usually more popular choices but we think this attractive and incredibly forgiving shrub deserves a [...]
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Now is the Best Time For Planting Trees Today is exactly the middle of January, it has been one of the mildest (albeit one of the wettest) winters for many a year. The current weather forecast is set fair for more of the same, over the coming couple of weeks at least... With this mild temperature [...]
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Winter Plant Ideas– by Karen Mariconda I often advise my customers that one of the very best times of year to choose and plant trees and shrubs is during the winter months. The reason being that if the plants look good and are resilient in the very worst that our UK winter has to offer then they [...]
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Why you should consider planting Skimmia Evergreen Shrubs in your garden... Attractive evergreen and easy to grow Skimmia's are stalwarts when it comes to providing interest in the Autumn and Winter when you need it most. Skimmia Evergreen Shrubs: Bright Red Winter Berries of Skimmia Obsession [...]
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This week we're highlighting one of our most popular shrubs - Choisya's are commonly known as Mexican Orange Blossom and Choisya Ternata has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) and it's not hard to see why. Mexican Orange Blossom or Choisya Ternata has the Award of Garden Merit from [...]
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