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Garden 2. Add more structure to your borders This is a great time of the year for focusing critically on the borders, without the distraction of the flowers and foliage. If it’s all looking dismal and bare, think about adding some plants for winter interest. These can be evergreen, or have interesting bark, an elegant form, or an anchoring feature of some kind. Try to make sure that plants that come into their own during the winter either fade into the background once they’ve done their thing, become a foil for other plants, or, best of all, will bring another point of seasonal interest later in the year. 5 Top Good structural plants: Box – this is excellent for adding formality and evergreen interest. Create low hedges, topiary shapes and focal points. Euphorbia ‘Wulfenii’ – is an architectural plant with handsome, grey/green foliage in winter and long-lasting lime green bracts in spring. Miscanthus sinensis – a tall grass with attractive seedheads that will persist all through the winter. Grasses are a good alternative to ‘blobby’ shrubs and bring movement to a border. Osmanthus – a small leaved evergreen with tiny scented flowers in spring. It can be trimmed to a neat shape to make a dark backdrop for other plants. Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’ – this dogwood has pretty, variegated foliage, good autumn colour and dark red stems on the young growth. 3. Learn how to prune If you’re adding structure, you will find that no matter how well behaved the plant is, unless it dies or is made of plastic, it will need pruning at some point. Knowing when to prune each plant and by how much is a subject that fills many books (containing impenetrable diagrams that bear no resemblance to your plants). So, in a couple of sentences: prune evergreens during the spring and summer when all danger of frost is past. Prune earlyflowering deciduous shrubs after they’ve flowered and late-flowering shrubs (Buddleia etc), in the early spring. For the health of the plant, cut out dead, damaged and diseased wood first and then aim for a pleasing goblet shape. Branches shouldn’t cross or grow inwards, as a more open structure allows air to circulate. Stand back often and look at the overall shape, as if you’re a hairdresser, but try not to ‘hedge’ about trimming little pieces off, as this can make the situation worse. Got all that? Fortunately GBH to plants does not carry a prison sentence – yet. 4. Catch problems early If you make a habit of going into the garden on a daily basis you stand a better chance of catching the first greenfly as it alights and the first slug that dares to slide into view. If possible, incorporate it into your daily routine and take a companion – or, better, a cup of tea or a glass of something as you walk round. You’ll soon start spotting a few weeds and the odd pesky. Pull them up or pick them off as you go and you might just stay on top of them… 5. Grow more edibles Some crops might not work, your vegetables might not look as perfect as they do in the shops, but they will taste better and you’ll have the satisfaction of having grown them yourself. That first year will be a great adventure – and it will take about that long for all the pests to find you – after that, growing your own can become more of a battle. If you have been growing vegetables for a while and have been beset by pests/diseases/ soil problems, work out which crops have suffered and then just grow a few of the easy-going ones that won’t need too much TLC: salads, beans, tomatoes and courgettes should provide bumper harvests of summer crops. Add in a few leeks and spinach or kale and the winter will be covered without much fuss, too. Apparently we should only make one resolution each year and then break it down into an achievable action plan. So I’d say going into the garden more often would be the one to choose. You might start off just catching a few of the problems early, but, strangely, the more you go out in it, the more you find yourself doing a few little jobs, and before you know it, there’s a list of plans and high hopes for their completion. Let’s get out there. For information on next year’s gardening courses contact Jo on 01233 861149 hornbrookmanor.co.uk wealdentimes.co.uk 132
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