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North Norfolk Post Feb issue

Bare Bones Hello and welcome to the new year and the first of our regular garden features. Over the coming months I will endeavor to give you some sound advice as well as interesting facts that I hope will inspire you to try something a little different in your own...

Romantic Garden Design

Valentines day is fast approaching and the thoughts of how to express our emotions through gifts can fill us all with dread.A romantic garden may be just the answer, it will be a token that will last, can be enjoyed together and can remind us of our loved one during...

In the bleak midwinter

Gardeners across the country are wrapped up in front of the fire a cup of tea/coffee/tipple in hand dreaming of summer and the garden but as we know us gardeners are a twitchy bunch so what jobs can be done in January.Well you will be pleased to know that there is no...

Gardening for your health

It is well documented that gardening can help you improve your health in many different ways, but this has been brought home to me more than ever this week.One of my customers has, earlier this year, been diagnosed with alzheimers. This terrible condition causes the...

Your garden personality

I believe that like our pets our gardens give something of our personality away, especially to the strangers who walk up your garden path. So what does your garden say about you?Well its only fair that I go first so while I was mowing the lawn (in my T-shirt in Nov...

Have you got Worms?

Earth worms or Lumbricus terrestris.Its assumed that if you have a garden, from a courtyard covered in pots to acres of landscaped estate, that you have worms. Well it may come as a surprise to learn that your earth could be barren.Worms can leave and often will do if...

How to: build a wildlife pond

Why not use this slow time of year to create a beautiful water feature that not only good for you but attractive to wildlife to. Contrary to popular belief you can have your cake and eat it so even if you have set your heart on a modern, contemporary formal pool you...

What pond liner?

You may have thought that deciding to build a pond and where to place it was the hard part but now you have to deciding how to line your pond. In order to make this decision a little easier I have listed the options below with some of the advantages and disadvantages....