Video Garden Tips
We have made lots of short videos of tips for the garden, all of these can be found on our youtube channel.
Packing & Delivery
- Packing Shed - How we pack a single plant for delivery
- Packing Shed - How we pack several plants for delivery
- Packing Shed - How we pack your plants on a pallet
General Garden Tips
- Bulbs - Protecting Spring Bulbs
- Climbers - Training
- Ground Cover - Cover steep banks
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Propagation
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Pruning
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Self-sown seedlings
Herbaceous perennial plants - Splitting and dividing
Herbaceous perennial plants - Supporting - Maintenance - Bird Boxes - Spring Clean
- Maintenance - Brambles - Removing
- Maintenance - Deadheading
- Maintenance - Feeding container grown plants
- Maintenance - Grass cutting in a woodland garden
- Maintenance - Hedge Trimming
- Maintenance - Ivy - Removing
- Maintenance - Ivy - Removing version 2
- Maintenance - Plants from cold winds
- Maintenance - Repotting Root-bound plants
- Maintenance - Shoots on grafted plants
- Maintenance - Supporting Plants
- Maintenance - Training Plants
- Maintenance - Variegation - maintaining in plants and hedges.
- Maintenance - Variegated plants - Pruning
- Pests & Diseases - Honey Fungus
- Pests & Diseases - Rabbit Damage Protection
- Pests & Diseases - Sooty Mould - Thrips
- Pests & Diseases - Wasps
- Perennials - Splitting and dividing summer perennials
- Perennials - Spring flowering tidy up in June
- Perennial grasses - Tidying up
- Shrubs - Fertilising
- Shrubs - Moving and replanting
- Shrubs - Mulching
- Shrubs - Pruning
- Shrubs - Self-sown seedlings
- Shrubs - Semi-ripe cuttings
- Trees - Checking ties
- Trees - Deer protection
- Trees - Planting a tree
- Trees - Pruning
- Trees - Removing side shoots
- Trees - Fallen young tree - restaking
- Trees - Fallen old tree
- Trees - Weed Spraying
- Trees - Undertaking a survey
Plant Specific Tips
- Abutilon - Pruning
- Acanthus - Summer Pruning
- Achillea - Splitting / Dividing
- Acers - Scorching & Dieback
- Aeonium - Propagation of offsets
- Aesculus - Flowering Background info.
- Agapanthus - Splitting / Dividing
- Alliums - Planting in autumn
- Alstroemeria - Care
- Astelia - Splitting / Dividing
- Aguilegia - Cutting back
- Astilbe - Splitting / Dividing
- Bamboo - Pruning
- Banksian rose - Pruning
- Brugmansia - Pruning
- Buddleia - Pruning
- Callistemon - Deadheading / Pruning
- Callistemon - Deadheading / Pruning No. 2
- Camellias - Care
- Camellias - Pruning
- Camellias - Seed collecting
- Camellias - Self-seeding reticulata
- Camellias - Sooty Mould - Thrips
- Camellias - 5 featured sasanqua camellias - Background info.
- Camellias - oleifera - Background info.
- Campsis - Autumn Pruning
- Cardiocrinum giganteum - Growing Guide
- Citrus - Feeding
- Citrus - Pruning after flowering
- Clethra - Background info.
- Crocosmia - lifting and splitting
- Cordyline - Pruning dead wood
- Cornus - Pruning
- Cornus capitata - Seed collecting
- Cytisus 'Porlock' - Pruning after flowering
- Daffodils - Deadheading / Pruning
- Daffodils - Planting in autumn
- Daffodils/narcissus - Hybridisation
- Delphinium - Cutting Back / Pruning, Delphinium - Cutting Back / Pruning
- Deutzia - Summer Pruning
- Dicksonia / Tree Ferns - Tidying
- Dicksonia / Tree Ferns - Winter Protection
- Echinops - Drying Flowers
- Echium pininana - Leave to seed
- Echiums - Seedlings to mature plants
- Eremurus - Planting
- Escallonia - Pruning
- Euphorbia - Evergreen Pruning
- Euphorbia - Dead Heading
- Fascicularia - Splitting / Dividing
- Fern - Care
- Ferns - Tidying
- Fuchsia - Pruning
- Fuchsia - Pruning, six weeks later
- Fuchsia procumbens - Background info.
- Gardenias - Care
- Garrya Elliptica 'James Roof' - Care
- Genista 'Porlock' - Pruning after flowering
- Geranium - lifting and splitting
- Griselinia - Maintaining variegation
- Heathers - Pruning Summer Flowering Heathers
- Helenium - Autumn tidy up
- Hellebores - Care
- Hemerocallis - Day lillies Deadheading
- Hemerocallis - Day lillies Propagation by splitting
- Hoheria - Checking deadwood
- Hostas - Protecting
- Hostas - Slug protection
- Hyacinths - Planting for Christmas
- Hydrangeas - Pruning
- Hydrangeas - Keeping them blue
- Hydrangeas - Drying flower heads
- Jasmine - Pruning
- Ivy - Removing
- Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' - Flowering
- Lampranthus - Pruning
- Laurel - Annual Pruning Hedges
- Laurel - 4/5 Year Hard Pruning Hedges
- Lavender - Harvesting for drying
- Lavender - Pruning French Lavender
- Lavender - General dead-heading
- Lavender - Propagation by cuttings
- Ligularia - Autumn tidy up
- Lily bulbs - Planting up
- Lonicera - Summer pruning
- Lupins - Dead heading & powdery mildew
- Magnolia - Checking deadwood
- Magnolia - Protection from slugs - short version
- Magnolia - Protection from slugs - longer version
- Magnolia - Planting a tree
- Magnolia - Pruning
- Magnolia - Seed collecting
- Magnolia - Shoots on rootstock
- Magnolia - Large shoot on rootstock
- Magnolia 'Caerhays Surprise' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii 'Alba' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' - New Zealand - Background info.
- Magnolia foveolata (Michelia) - Background info.
- Magnolia / Manglietia insignis - Background info.
- Magnolia macclurei (Michelia) - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Peachy' & 'Daybreak' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Tikitere' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Tropicana' - Background info.
- Magnolia - Best yellow magnolias video feature.
- Meconopsis - Deadheading V1
- Meconopsis - Deadheading V2
- Musa - Splitting / Dividing
- Myrtus - Self-sown seedlings
- Olearia scilloniensis - Summer Pruning
- Papaver / poppies - Spring flowering tidy up in June
- Peonies - Spring feeding
- Peonies (Tree) - Seed Collecting
- Philadelphus - Summer Pruning
- Phormium - Splitting Pot Grown Plants
- Plumbago - Pruning
- Plumbago - Semi-ripe cuttings
- Podocarpus salignus - Background info.
- Prunus 'Okame', 'Kursar' & conradinae - Background info.
- Punica - Background info.
- Rhododendron - Pruning - Don't!
- Rhododendron - Deadheading
- Rhododendron - Propagation by Layering
- Rhododendron - Making a hybrid
- Rhododendron - Pruning
- Rhododendron - Making a hairy or scaly cross?
- Rhododendron genestrianum - Background info.
- Rhododendron 'Red Centurian' - Background info.
- Rhododendron - scented rhodies - Background info.
- Romneya Tree Poppy - Propagating
- Romneya Tree Poppy - Pruning
- Romneya Tree Poppy - Supporting
- Rosmarinus / Rosemary - Summer Pruning
- Snowdrops - Lifting and dividing snowdrops
- Stachyurus - Background info.
- Staphylea holocarpa 'Rosea' - Background info.
- Strelitzia - Splitting / Dividing
- Taxus / Yew - Hedge trimming
- Thalictrum - Lifting & splitting
- Tibouchina - Pruning
- Tradescantia - Lifting & tidying
- Tulips - Planting in autumn/winter
- Wisteria - Effect of winter pruning
- Wisteria - Summer June/July pruning
- Yew - Poisonous seeds in autumn
- Zantedeschia, Arum Lily - Support
