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Step 4 – Choosing and buying your plants
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This stage can be the most fun. Knowing what you want to achieve and the physical properties of your soil and site, use the lists below to help choose the plants you will need. The Shop pages contain complete descriptions of our plants, almost all with accompanying pictures, and are arranged in A –Z order…
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Step 3 – Preparation, getting the area ready for planting
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Preparation is the secret to success; so take sufficient time to make sure you have the basics covered. The more thorough the preparation the better the plants will grow. Unwanted weeds Regardless of soil type the area intended for planting needs to be substantially free of weeds, especially perennial types, and of course cleared of…
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Step 2 – Site, Soil and Aspect
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Having decided the area you want to work on and what general style you might like it is time to look at the practical considerations of the area. Have your pen and paper handy. Plants grow best and are easiest to look after when they are in conditions that suit them. ‘Right Plant – Right…
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Step 1 – What you are looking to achieve
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The first step, as with so many things, can often seem the most difficult. It may pay to make brief notes as you go through these pages, to help you later on. Before starting work, or buying a plant, you really need to consider what it is you are looking to achieve . If you…
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How to look after your deciduous grasses (video)
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Watch our gardener preparing the Decennium border in spring
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Lecture Programme
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Neil Lucas Lecture Programme 2019/2020 Neil Lucas is the UK’s leading ornamental grass specialist, owner of Knoll Gardens, holder of ten consecutive Chelsea Gold Medals, RHS Council Member and Senior Judge, best-selling author of ‘Designing with Grasses’ and founder of the Knoll Gardens Foundation. A passionate plantsman, Neil has been at Knoll Gardens for 25…
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5 steps to design your own garden
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5 Easy steps to DIY design With such an amazing range of plants to choose from we appreciate just how it might appear confusing to some people, especially those comparatively new to gardening or gardening with grasses. In fact it is fairly straightforward, even fun, to do. Try our free DIY online approach If you…
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Miscanthus Starlight
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A new ornamental grass from Knoll Gardens. Miscanthus Starlight is possibly the most compact free flowering miscanthus so far available and was released by Knoll Gardens in 2012 as part of our long running selection programme aimed at providing UK gardeners with a range of quality ornamental grasses that perform consistently well in our varied…
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Want to know how to use grasses in your garden?
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The first book by Knoll’s owner, Neil Lucas and offers a truly practical approach to gardening with grasses from the UK’s leading authority. Order your signed copy now for just £15.
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Look after grasses
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Evergreen and deciduous grasses With pruning in mind there are really two types of grasses; the evergreens with foliage that stays alive all year, and the deciduous whose growth dries to a beige brown but stands the winter. Most work is done in the spring so it is fairly easy to tell which is which…
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