http://www.serenity-gardening.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi everyone it's June and time for more work around the garden. After the flowers have faded on the shrubs in the garden its to trim them back.  This will promote new growth. If you have feeding stations its time to fill them up and feed the wild birds and their babies.  They love to ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/its-sunny-hot-and-its-june/ Well here we are well into May now, there's plently of  jobs around the garden to keep us all busy for the month: Roses - Its time to tend to your roses with a good feed, which is applied now, and again in autumn. Watering - The weather has changed for the better here in Devon, so ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/lets-get-busy-in-may/ Its nearly April and here are a few jobs to keep us busy: Amaryllis- If like mine yours are starting to look a little bedraggled now, then its time to cut off the heads but leave the stalk in tact.  The stalk will die away naturally, this process ensures that all the nutrients start going back ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/lets-get-busy-in-april/ Hi everyone, I hope you all had a lovely Easter, Martyn and I decided to go to The Eden Project on Good Friday, it was delightful.  The rain forest dome with its huge spectacular display of unsual plants and trees is my particularly favourite attraction.  The temperature was very hot and humid but well worth a slow ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/eden-project/ Happy Easter everyone, I will catch up with you after the long weekend.  Hopefully I will be visiting a few gardens in and around Devon and Cornwall.   I will tell you how I got on next week and post some more pictures in my gallery. http://www.serenity-gardening.com/happy-easter/ Hiya everyone, At the weekend my fiance (Martyn) and I decided to head off to the Tavistock plant fair, which was held in the pannier market within the town centre.  It was lovely, plenty of plants of all colours, shapes, sizes and the people selling the plants were only too happy to answer quesitions and ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/tavistock-plant-fair/ Here are some answers to some common questions that Gardens Monthly have put together this month and a few of my own that you might find interesting: How to avoid your tomatoes splitting - Tomatoes tend to be split if the water supply is erratic, especially if there is too little followed by too ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/top-100-gardening-answers/ These are books that I suggest buying and adding to your collection.  By clicking on the title of the book you will be taken to Amazon to purchase the book from their list.  Check out the great offers! Plant Propagation (Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening) Vegetable and Herb Expert RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/books-of-interest/  I have now started to feed my house plants once every two weeks again, and the ones which have outgrown their pots I have re-potted in larger ones, again using the New Horizon compost and give them a good watering until water is trickling through the bottom. I water every one/two weeks ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/house-plants/ I decided taken a few cuttings from my hebe bush and they have rooted nicely.  The cuttings were taken only few weeks ago, hebes' are pretty good at rooting quickly and the flowers they produce attract the bees and  odd butterfly.  For a detailed description of how to take cutting successfully how about ... http://www.serenity-gardening.com/propagation/