Leave the flowers on until the Spring. Hard pruning on established plants, can also be done at this time, I remove a few of the oldest branches each year down to ground level.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Dove: I am an amateur gardener with 70 years experience. As an amateur that means: one year's experience reopeated 70 times.
Professional ae often trained by rote, without thinking. Books often plagarise each other and repeat misconceptions. I strive to learn and am happy to share the knpwledge that i have gained in my particulat circumstances.
It's worth listening to with an open mind.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Ferdinand, take cuttings now. You can then still have the plant in a new postion. Dead easy. (Though hydrangeas, having fibrous roots are easy to move.)
I root them in water first before potting. Not what the experts say, but hey, it works.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Dove: I am an amateur gardener with 70 years experience. As an amateur that means: one year's experience reopeated 70 times.
Professional ae often trained by rote, without thinking. Books often plagarise each other and repeat misconceptions. I strive to learn and am happy to share the knpwledge that i have gained in my particulat circumstances.
It's worth listening to with an open mind.
Well … with 66 years experience I can tell you that no two years are ever the same. I doubt that you really have continued to do the same thing for 70 years without alteration and adaptation.
And I’m sorry, I don’t wish to be rude, but I find your opinion of a professional gardener’s education and training to be bizarre.
The highly qualified horticultural and botanical scientists who work for the RHS and at Kew aren’t just ground staff trained to operate a bushwhacker and a set of gang mowers you know.
To disparage their many years of scientific study as ‘learning by rote’ is simply just wrong. And as I’ve said earlier, scientific papers are peer reviewed. Plagiarism is quickly spotted and called out.
I think I've spotted the closed mind 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Of course it is just possible you have been repeating the same mistakes each year for 70 years. In my career I found learning by rote was essential, as was thinking. The same applies to gardening.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Posts
Leave the flowers on until the Spring.
Hard pruning on established plants, can also be done at this time, I remove a few of the oldest branches each year down to ground level.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Professional ae often trained by rote, without thinking. Books often plagarise each other and repeat misconceptions. I strive to learn and am happy to share the knpwledge that i have gained in my particulat circumstances.
It's worth listening to with an open mind.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I root them in water first before potting. Not what the experts say, but hey, it works.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
And I’m sorry, I don’t wish to be rude, but I find your opinion of a professional gardener’s education and training to be bizarre.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In my career I found learning by rote was essential, as was thinking. The same applies to gardening.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border