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Maintaining a parterre or knot garden Maintaining a parterre or knot garden in spring is essential for ensuring its structure, beauty, and health throughout the growing season. These formal gardens, characterized by symmetrical patterns and low hedging, require specific care… Continue Reading →
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Strimming. Strimming (or trimming with a line trimmer/strimmer) is a key gardening task, especially in the UK between March and May when growth accelerates. It complements mowing and hand-weeding, keeping your garden neat and healthy. Here’s a detailed list of… Continue Reading →
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Pruning fruit trees in spring. Pruning fruit trees in spring is a key practice for maintaining their health, productivity, and shape. Here’s a list of reasons why you should prune in spring, followed by a guide on how to do… Continue Reading →
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Aeration. Aeration is the process of creating small holes in your lawn’s soil to loosen it up, improve airflow, and let water and nutrients reach the grass roots more effectively. Over time, soil can get compacted from foot traffic, heavy… Continue Reading →
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Thatch removal. Often done through scarifying, is the process of clearing away the layer of dead grass, roots, moss, and organic debris that builds up on your lawn’s surface, just above the soil. This layer, called thatch, can get thick… Continue Reading →
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Do it at the right time (like early spring or autumn when the grass is active but not stressed), and you’ll see the difference in no time. scarify and aerate? Scarifying and aerating your garden lawn can do wonders… Continue Reading →
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Day One – Cutting for access. – a glimpse into what goes on: @shadowofthegardener arrives on our first work day, to get started work. After several face to face meetings, and long weeks of email discussions, picture taking, and discussing… Continue Reading →
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Lawn Scarification. By @shadowofthegardener #SOTG Featuring Cobra and Toro Scarification machines being put through their paces; and worked extremely hard. This was a large project, and the lawn was in a very poor condition. We ground it down eventually though…… Continue Reading →
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Classic British and French Garden elements. Knot Gardens and Parterres. Hard to say one without the other being mention, as they are both interchangeable. The formal descriptions and definitions below. What is a Parterre? What is a Knot Garden? … Continue Reading →
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Ideally suited to level a lawn, that has for some time; been neglected. Which is handy, as that was the first lawn it was cutting. Glad it has a Foot assisted Deck Lift. Also handy coming with Anti Scalping Wheels…. Continue Reading →
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Given the nature of what we do and who we do it for. We don't often get the chance to show the general public, inside or around the gardens we work on. As we respect our Clients privacy & properties…. Continue Reading →
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