Rachel the Gardener

Buddleia - formative pruning

On-line Seminar – Self-Employed Gardeners: How to Grow and Develop your Business: Sat 24th January, 2026

Iris unguicularis - too late for Autumn Slaughter!

Gloves... *singing* “Hands that do dishes, can feel soft as your face....”

Every cloud has a silver lining...

Time to wave farewell to the Parthenocissus!

How to deal with a pot-bound purchase

Garden Design Question

Hypericum winter pruning - maybe not quite yet?

“What did you do, at the weekend, Rachel?”

“Help! The roses are growing over my window, again!”

Growing older in a garden: de-thorning roses by a door.

Gardening - like Botany - is not a hard science!

Watering plants: when to drench.

Alchemilla - time to cut them back

Wildflower meadows in a domestic setting

Parch marks in grass: Hidden Secrets

When NOT to attempt to prune your corkscrew Willow

Scorched grass and hosepipe bans: the silver lining

Rose Dieback: what is it, really?

Salix Kilmarnock: knowing when to call it a day

Wrong plant, wrong place?

Acorn Update: it just gets better!

Ladybirds: a bumper year for them?

June Newsletter

Fascinated by Fasciation: today, Spear Thistle!

Building the Rose Tower

Irish Yew: what a terrible thing to do to it!!

It's Ermine moth time again, folks!

Acorns: One of these Things is Not Like the Others

Salix Kilmarnock - it's in trouble, folks!

How to re-wet a dried-out tree in a pot

“Life... will find a way...”

Grafted Weeping Cherry: all is not lost!

Roses against walls: do not tuck them behind the wires!

New Edition: Compost and Leaf Mold!