Colour your life in December
by Colour Your Life
A wonderful month with Christmas to look forward to and decorating inside and out to enjoy. Use lots of berries and foliage for a really festive feel – plus don’t forget outside too.Articles with the tag "winter"
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Garden maintenance in november
by Colour your life
Plant beeches Beeches are best planted and replanted when the leaves have gone golden yellow. That is when the chance of good development is greatest. It is crucial for that development that a particular soil fungus is attached to the roots. So make sure that you buy beeches when they are still (entrenched) in the soil. That offers the greatest likelihood that the roots are in good condition (and that fungus is present) -
Winter gardening: Salix (willow), Cornus (dogwood) and Acer (maple)
by Colour Your Life
Winter gardening used to be something of a contradiction in terms. Many people simply used to ‘put the garden to bed’ during the colder months, tidy things up at the end of autumn and wait for spring with a mug of a hot chocolate and a seed catalogue for company. Now this has all changed and planning the garden for winter beauty and enjoyment is a priority for many. It’s easy to see why. -
'Winter colour - instant cheer!' with shrubs and perennials including Daphne, Hamamelis, Helleborus and Corylopsis pauciflora
by Colour Your Life
Late winter can be an exciting time in the garden. There is a sense of anticipation and promise that early perennials and flowering shrubs make more tangible. One such shrub from our selection is the intriguingly named Daphne. These fantastic shrubs can add not only a welcome splash of colour, but also bring to the garden an exotic aroma. However, it will help you to have some background on the naming of this plant and, believe me, the story I’m about to tell you contains lust, trickery and rejection – not features you come across in every plant article! So, settle yourself down with a hot drink while I transport you to another world… -
Hellebores
by Colour Your Life
New Year, new plant stories New Year – new you! Everywhere you look at this time we are being encouraged to begin new life-regimes for exercise, weight loss, savings, learning new skills. It’s exhausting just to look at them – try putting them into practice! What everyone really needs to pep-them up now is a spot of plant magic and what better plant group to do this than the hellebores?
