How to take care of your garden. In this category we will be looking into garden animals, constructions, fences, gates, grass, hedges, manure, patios, planting, plants, ponds, recycle, seeds, slabs, structures and weeds.
Laurels grow as tall tree-like shrubs, reaching heights 3 metres (10 feet) or more, depending on the variety. Some laurels may reach up to 12 metres (40 feet) high while…
Unless you built your house with your own hands, it’s unlikely that you’ve ever considered the foundations upon which your home sits. We often take solid foundations for granted and…
Conifer shrubs, like coniferous trees, stay green year-round. When planted close together, they grow towards each other and create a thick wall of branches, forming a hedge. A hedge is…
Conifer Hedges are planted in trenches, dig a trench wide 50cm (20″) And 30cm deep. Loosen up the bottom of the trench as this will encourage the downward growth of…
As with other evergreen plants, laurel bushes continue to grow throughout the year, though the flowers on laurel bushes appear only during the spring and summer growing season. Although laurel…
Privet hedges are deciduous bushes that grow quickly and can soon overpower an area in your landscaping. Some varieties have a white bloom in the early summer and others have…
The Hawthorn is a popular native deciduous hedging plant also known as Quickthorn or May Blossom or May Thorn or May Flower.
The common hawthorn, or Crataegus monogyna is a shrub native to the UK that makes formal 1.5 to 3 m (5 to 10 foot) tall hedges. The shrubs or trees…
Privet hedges are fast growing shrubs. Planting a privet hedge around your property will provide privacy and add beauty to your yard. There are two different varieties of the privet.…
Perhaps best known as a widespread and stubborn weed, dandelions endear themselves to many people through their tasty, edible leaves. However, gathering wild dandelion greens poses several problems, most notably…