#box blight

As midsummer approaches, it’s the perfect time for Monty to place succulents outside at Longmeadow, as well as planting out dahlias and tender vegetables. #garden #gardening #gardenersworld

Gardeners’ World 2021 episode 14: As midsummer approaches, it’s the perfect time for Monty to place succulents outside at Longmeadow, as well as planting out dahlias and tender vegetables.     Alternative Stream     Carol Klein visits Trebah Garden in Cornwall, where she finds plants which can add early summer pazazz to our borders. Nick Bailey is at RHS Wisley to look at a variety of shrubs…

The Beechgrove Garden 2021 episode 5: Carole and Mairi set about fixing, feeding and repairing the Beechgrove lawns, while Kirsty creates a new living lawn. #garden #gardening #gardenersworld

The Beechgrove Garden 2021 episode 5: Carole and Mairi set about fixing, feeding and repairing the Beechgrove lawns, while Kirsty creates a new living lawn.     Meanwhile, Brian is in his family garden at Old Scone and encouraging us not to mow, or if we do mow, to use a hand-push mower. And Chris Beardshaw provides an update on the projects that he started in his home garden last year,…

The Trouble with Box Blight – Boxwood Leaf Spot – Gardeners Nightmare

Box blight is a relatively new fungal disease to affect many an estate garden, often having the popular evergreen boxwood hedging shrub or a topiary specimen found in formal areas of beds and border containers.

Discovered during the 1990’s it has caused many a nightmare for gardens that incorporate low hedges or topiary in their design. Already major problem in our gardens!

Often…

The Beechgrove Garden episode 12 2017 #gardening #garden

In the Beechgrove Garden, Jim is growing tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers side by side in his domestic-sized greenhouse. They shouldn’t work together, but with limited space you have to make it work, and Jim is determined to find a way.

With pruning saws at the ready once again, Carole and George take the Woodland Garden in hand as, at the moment, you can’t see the wood for the trees.

Brian visits…