A figgy pudding
Spent a happy day today pruning a large and rather unwieldy fig tree. This seems to be a theme of …
Category Archives: pruning
Hedging my bets #2
So having established that I have the wildlife habitat equivalent of the Mona Lisa around my garden and if I …
GOOPs February
Notes to self: 1) In winter, branches on apple trees are full of water and therefore VERY heavy.2) You know …
Ouch
There’s one thing they don’t tell you about gardening before you start: you only find out once you’re well and …
A tale of gardening failure
My poor apple trees. I was raking up the leaves they’ve so generously been scattering all over my chicken run, …
Inspiration from West Dean #3
If you thought training fruit was a simple matter of arranging the branches in a sort of fan-shape against a …
The bamboo boogie
You may already know that I’m no fan of bamboo. The trouble with urging people to dig up all their …
Wrestling wisteria
Look what I took on this week… Actually I shouldn’t have taken it on at all, being as I’m hopelessly …
Summer-pruning roses
About this time I find all my roses, and everyone else’s too, are getting a bit wayward. They’ve mostly finished …
Scary gardening
I got called a scary gardener the other day. That was by a client of mine when she saw what …
Sally Nex 