Hebe “Red edge” Hebe “Red Edge” is a popular flowering shrub. It offers mauve coloured flowers in summer with its distinctive blue-green red tipped leaves turning a deeper red in winter. Used mostly in borders or for edging it will also do very well in containers. Plant in

The London Orchard Project We would like to thank The London Orchard Project – recently featured on BBC One’s Inside Out London – for giving us a newly cultivated Apple tree that we will be planting in a local Children’s Nursery in December. We are also hoping to plant a m

Vertical Garden – pallet regeneration I had some old pallets lying about so I wanted to see if I could put them to use rather than just sending them off for recycling. I’d seen some different types of vertical gardens using pallets but they weren’t planters, other examples were using

Scarify, aeration and top dressing the lawn This is a good one to get the children earning their keep! Use a lawn rake (V shaped rake) to rake over the entire lawn, don’t be afraid to get stuck in – you’re trying to remove the weaker grass and encourage new stronger