Mar
2010
Articles from 6th Mar 2010
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Graham Porter’s gardening; diary
Mar 06 2010 | Gardening Tips
` Be Plantwise – this is the new title for a campaign by the Department of Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to help stop the rapid spread of a number of invasive aquatic weeds that have entered Britain through a variety of means, including plant imports. The plants of concern are floating pennywort (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides), parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum spp), New Zealand pigmyweed (Crassula helmsii) water primrose (Ludwigia spp.) and water fern (Azolla filiculoides). The eradication of these and other land-based foreign weeds such as Japanese knotweed is currently costing the tax-payer around £2.7 billion a year. Visit www.beplantwise.direct.gov.uk for more information. Read
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Graham Porter’s gardening: poisonous garden plants
Mar 06 2010 | Gardening Tips
IT is a sad fact of life that some of our beautiful garden plants have a nasty side to them that can cause serious problems for us humans if we do not respect them. Read
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Graham Porter’s gardening: Clematis clipping and garden ground preparations
Mar 06 2010 | Gardening Tips
1 Clematis clipping – if you have any late flowering clematis in your garden, now is the time to give them their annual haircut. This applies to any clematis that normally flowers from mid-August onwards and includes clematis jackmannii hybrids. Cut all of last summer’s growth back to around 45-60 cm (18-24”) from the ground or to newly emerging shoots if they are a little lower or higher. At the same time you can add a general spring fertiliser and a mulch of well-rotted garden compost or similar. Read
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Graham Porter’s gardening: plant of week, Crocuses
Mar 06 2010 | Gardening Tips
DESPITE the lateness of their flowers this year, with virtually ever decent sized piece of public grass in Huddersfield now covered in crocuses, our spring is set to be a bright and colourful one. Read
