As a designer it is important design gardens that reflect the client’s personality & needs with added “style and flair”. You need to be able to quickly visualise what’s right for the site and see the end result in relation to the needs and desires (or “brief”) the client conveys. You should then confidently translate […]
Strawberries June is the first month of winter, and happily the month that most types of strawberry plants become available in garden centres. Strawberries were originally a woodland plant and the modern strawberries (such as Pajaro), have been bred from these wild varieties. It is important to remember this when you come to plant strawberries […]
May is one of my favourite times of the year when the days are still warm, the evenings a tad chilly but most importantly all my berry bushes are producing at an astounding rate. I had great ambitions to make jams and jellies and cute little cup cakes filled with berries. So what went wrong? […]
Time flies faster these days than it ever did when I was young; now its May already with only a few more weeks till the shortest day and the beginning of a new gardening year. May is the time to preserve and protect what we have in our gardens so that all will be in […]
Autumn is a great time for planting out gardens. Besides the planting of vegetables and flowering plants, there is also a wide range of shrubs and trees you can add to your garden.or different parts of the garden, depending on what you are planting. It is still a bit early for new seasons deciduous fruit, […]
It is Easter Saturday as I write this column, (I normally always write them on a Saturday morning each week) and for the last 3 days I have not watered any of my gardens or container plants – including those in my glasshouse. This is not because we have had lots of rain, in fact […]
It’s official, vege gardening is the hottest topic around and everyone is eager to know more! Last year, the Autumn home show surveys filled in by attendees indicated that vege gardening was the No.1 interest that people wanted to find out more about. In response to that Patch from Scratch were invited to exhibit there […]
Local electricity generation & distribution company, Top Energy has embarked on a multi-million dollar network investment plan aimed at improving reliability, performance and security of electricity supply. The plan includes a $4.4 million, automation programme which is nearing completion, a $2m programme to reduce the effects of lightning strikes, a 3-year, $9 million vegetation control […]
