THE MODERN MINT BLOG
How do you prune a wisteria people ask me. When is the best time? Winter? Again in summer? What are …
Learn To Clip Topiary Workshop 2020
I am running a topiary workshop in 2020 with the wonderful topiary artist Charlotte Molesworth at her spectacular topiary garden in Kent. This is a topiary workshop where you will learn to clip, so be prepared to do some cutting. We start with a tour of the garden, which Charlotte and her husband Donald have been cultivating for 34 years. It is organic, full of wildlife and has the most extraordinary pruned shapes made from yew and boxwood. You can see more photos of the garden in an article in the Guardian here: Topiary Garden In Kent What Else Will …
Box Tree Moth Trap – Green Gardener
It is quickly coming up to spring and worth checking your boxwood plants in the next month or so for box tree moth and caterpillar. You can read more about how I dealt with it last year in a garden in Essex here: Dealing With Boxwood Moth & Caterpillar If you want a trap to reduce the population of breeding males (and why wouldn’t you want to do that to reduce the damage caused by this pest?) then you can get a trap from The Green Gardener. Get 10% off by using this code from The European Boxwood & Topiary Society …
Rosybee: Results Of Her Best Plants For Bees Study
Rosybee, the brilliant plant nursery in Oxford who focus on plants for bees, have published the results of their studies. After 5 years of testing plants and counting honeybees you can see the top performers here… Best Plants For Bees Study We interviews Rosi, the owner of Rosybee nursery years back when she started. Do take a read as it offers great advice on the thought that went towards making life as easy as possible for a start-up nursery. Especially one with such an important mission! Interview With Rosybee As you can see, the top plants for the honeybee are …