Garden Plants
How to Prune Lavender
Lavender is the most underpruned plant in the UK. People are afraid of cutting into the brown wood, and so they give…
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Garden Plants
Roses
Pruning & Trimming Bush Roses
Climbing roses are pruned differently, into a framework of long, ideally winding canes that cover its supports. How to Prune Rose BushesPruning…
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Roses
Pruning A Climbing Rose
Climbing roses have a different regime than pruning rose bushes. They are not really true climbers, meaning they don’t twine like Honeysuckle…
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Roses
Deadhead Repeat Flowering Roses
How to Deadhead a Repeating Rose Bush, With Some Summer PruningIn this example, we are using the vigorous, repeat flowering rambler, Narrow…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Train & Prune Blackberry Bushes
Blackberry bushes are easy to cut back, this page is not here to overcomplicate things.It’s just a matter of choosing what works…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Grow Blackcurrant Bushes
How to Grow Blackcurrants BushesBlackcurrants are simple to grow, and the pruning regime is a bit different from pruning Red & Whitecurrants.…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning Gooseberries & Red/White Currants
Gooseberry bushes are pruned almost exactly the same way as Red & Whitecurrant bushes.Pruning is so important for getting good crops of…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning A Crab apple Tree
When to Prune Crab Apple TreesThis video demonstrates a crab apple tree, and the same principles apply to a lot of other…
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Trees
How To Pleach A Flat-Head Lime Tree
How to pleach a flat-headed Lime treePleaching trees creates a “hedge on stilts”. Many trees are suitable, and limes are ideal pleached…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How To Grow ‘Brown Turkey’ Figs
The most popular fig variety in the UK for getting fruit from is the ‘Brown Turkey’ fig.The instructions for ‘Brown Turkey’ apply…
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