This Fact Sheet is to support Howard's presentation The Modern Dry or Resilient Garden, it is Howard's personal choice based on many years of gardening and observations of gardens and their plants over many years, especially in the the South East of the country, which seems to be leading the trend to drier periods and lower rainfall most of the year. It is by no means exhaustive and will be regularly revised.
Phytophthora pluvialis, is a fungus-like pathogen known to affect a variety of trees including western hemlock, tanoak, pine (Pinus radiata, Pinus patula and Pinus strobus) and Douglas-fir.
The last couple of years has seen many new variegated Aeoniums emerge onto the market, here is a list of cultivars and possible suppliers.
Ground cover plants can enhance your garden in many ways, while also saving you time in the garden. There are some good plants that work well as ground cover, there are others which can turn out to be absolute horrors.
The changing climate and certain garden situations can leave gardeners with damp, shady areas in our gardens. The following is my list based on experience rather than searching books of plants that will thrive in damp shade.
This list details plants which will thrive in dry shade. My list is borne out of my observations of successful plantings, there may well be other subjects that should be included, and this list will grow as I see other impressive plantings.
Each year many millions of Polyanthus and Primroses are sold in Britain, here's how to get the best from your plants.
Being a keen grower of succulents and Primulas, I am all too aware that mealybug is becoming an increasing problem for growers, yet there seems to be little understood about these pests and the possible means of control.
As gardens seem to be getting smaller, the search is on to find trees suitable for today's modern small garden, or perhaps you want a small tree for a larger garden.
Pruning apple trees is actually more simple than most people realize, there are a few basic rules and here we explain them.
