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Category: How to
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Grasses for Informal Garden Hedges
DIY, Garden, How to, Ornament Grasses
The value of ornamental grasses in our gardens is becoming well known, but their use as simple highly effective and rather beautiful informal hedges, or space dividers, might not be so obvious. Grasses happy combination of unique form and line can be used so easily to create tall or short internal screens or hedges that…
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Backlit, Beautiful ……and Free
Garden, How to, Ornament Grasses
A free light display is something most of us would probably love to have in our gardens if asked. Yet so often when planning and planting our border displays we make no provision for, or possibly even think about, using those plants such as the ornamental grasses that have the ability to be spectacularly lit up by…
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When to cut back your borders
Flowering Perennials, How to, Info, Ornament Grasses
Dont do it……..at least not yet!! Not too long ago the tradition was to cut back our borders in the autumn – to ‘tidy’ them for winter. This may seem rather odd to us now, but of course when borders were based largely on flowers and not so much on shape and form and longevity…
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How to look after your deciduous grasses (video)
How to
Watch our gardener preparing the Decennium border in spring
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Look after grasses
How to
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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Calculate the number of plants you need
How to
Here is our list of suggested numbers of plants to be used per square metre. Complete cover of the ground should be created using either the higher or lower suggested planting densities; the higher density, by using more plants, taking less time to achieve cover than the lower density. For specimen style planting, for example…
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Choose the Right Plants for your Garden
How to
Choosing the right plants for your gardens conditions is probably the single most important thing to get right for a successful garden. Below are some suggestions that we hope will get you started in the right direction. These lists can be guides only and it is important to read the individual descriptions for each plant….
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