Monthly Tips

January

It’s time to prepare for growing in the year ahead: dust and scrub your pots, trays and labels.  Clean and sharpen your tools and, if necessary replace tools.

Check that the seeds you intend to sow are in date and stored in a cool, dry, mouse-free container.

It’s a great time to plant trees and hedging as the ground is moist and still not frozen!

Keep on clearing winter debris from your beds and mulch them with leaf mould, bark or compost: watch out for emerging bulbs!

If you have a patch of perennial weeds, now is a good time to tackle it before the weeds begin to grow again.

Continue harvesting leeks, kale and parsnips.  Prune autumn-fruiting raspberries to soil level.

Don’t forget to provide food for the birds in your garden.

Bulbs such as tulips that you haven't got around to putting in the garden, can still be planted as long as they are firm and mould-free.  Pots of spring flowering bulbs are also in stock which are ideal for planting in tubs and borders.

Hellebores are flowering now - their hanging flowers are lovely picked and floated in a bowl of water.

Fact Sheets

Click here to view our fact sheets.

Our fact sheets contain everything you need to know to help you grow.

Each one can be printed so you can store them easily in your shed for when you need them.

Garden Design

We are pleased to offer the complete Garden design, Landscaping and Renovation service.
We have two companies we would recommend who work symbiotically to provide all your garden requirements. They are:  'Bowercot Garden Design' and 'gardenleave'

Bowercot Garden Design



Our garden design team offer a full design, project management, planting and styling service to clients seeking to create their dream garden. We are happy to work on any size of project from small planting schemes to large country gardens. An initial visit and consultation is free of charge. Further details are available at our website www.bowercotgardendesign.co.uk.
If your garden already has a good basic structure but needs a revamp, some fresh planting and styling ideas, or you just need some help and advice with pruning or other garden problems, we also offer a garden improvement service.

The Team:
Alan Edmondson - Planting Design and Horticultural Consultancy 
Alan is a highly experienced and talented horticulturist, former National Mastermind of Gardening, award winning conservationist and regular gardening expert on BBC Radio Solent. He founded Bowercot Garden Design in 1999 and is responsible for planting design and horticultural consultation.

Bryn Edmondson - Garden Design 
Bryn joined his father in Bowercot Garden Design in 2000. He has a master’s degree from Cambridge and has studied landscape and planting design at Greenwich School of Landscape Architecture. He has produced many gardens in a wide range of styles from contemporary urban courtyards to large rural estates.

Mobile:  07880 584 392
Tel:  01590 610 292      
Email: bryn@bowercotgardendesign.co.uk