What do in the garden in November Ten top tips from our experts on what to do in the garden this month (November). 1. Conifers add much needed colour and shape to your garden in the winter months and are starting to become more popular again with the gardening community all over the world. There…
Looking berry good in November Berries and fruits provide cheerful splashes of colour in the garden once leaves begin to fall. Some of the shrub roses are terrific, laden with large red or orange hips, like ‘Fru Dagmar Hastrup’, ‘Scabrossa’ and ‘Scarlet Fire’. Hips Some of the rose species like Rosa rugosa, dog rose (R.canina),…
Jobs to do in the garden in November November marks the start of winter and the time when any remaining colour in the garden begins to fade. Now is the time to start preparing for next year’s growing season and it’s still a good time for planting all hardy plants too. Plant • Finish planting…
Four great gardening tasks to tackle this weekend… If you’re looking for a few seasonal tasks to tackle in the garden this weekend, then how about these four? 1. Clean out nesting boxes and use boiling hot water to kill any over-wintering parasites. 2. Plant tulip bulbs. 3. Sow broad beans and peas. 4. Plant…
Tree planting Now is the perfect time to get new trees into the ground. They are best planted in the late autumn, especially bare rooted varieties. The soil in the autumn is warm and moist so gives trees the time they need to produce new roots and acclimatise before the onset of next summer’s heat.…
GROW offers new course on workplace sexual harassment Our Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform is offering a new course to help recognise and prevent workplace sexual harassment (November 2024). Available to all GCA member garden centres and their teams and to Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) garden centres too, this is the 95th course…