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A landscape park in Monmouthshire

A Week Gardening in Gloucestershire & Monmouthshire

February 2025 The week started in the grounds of a Grade 1 listed church near Usk in Monmouthshire. Clearing Bracken

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Winter Pruning a Pear and Apple Orchard in South Gloucestershire

A pear espalier in the walled garden. Looking forward to pruning the apple trees in a large walled garden in

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Barn Owls in South Gloucestershire

Putting Up a Barn Owl Nestbox in South Gloucestershire Back in February 2023 we put up a couple of Barn

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Cloud Pruned Hedge in a Wildflower Lawn

Hedges, Hedgecutting & Topiary,

Late summer and autumn sees the beginning of our annual hedgecutting schedule, part of our year-round garden maintenance work. The

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Clearing leaves in a landscaped park in Monmouthshire

Leaves, lawns & petrol blowers

If there is one job we carry out as gardeners that creates as much controversy as any, its clearing autumn

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Dahlias in the cutting garden

Dahlias in the Cutting Garden

A walled garden in the Severn Vale in South Gloucestershire dating from the 18th century. Cut flowers, soft fruit, espaliers

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Pruning Fruit Trees – Espaliers, Cordons, Fans & Standards

Pruning fruit trees is often said to be a gardener’s favourite job. I wouldn’t disagree. There is a long history

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Design & Maintenance of an Herbaceous Border

A traditional herbaceous border can be described as blocks or drifts of non-woody flowering plants, organised according to height and

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The Parterre at Barrow Court 2017

Box Moth, Box Blight, Topiary & Parterres

Evergreen Structure for Year Round Interest The strong architecture of clipped evergreens is an important feature for a lot of

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Bespoke Greenhouse for a Victorian Walled Garden Design

Part of the renovation of a designed landscape in the Wye Valley and working with the client on establishing Bloomcliff

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