Creating beautiful gardens in the Chilterns
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KnowHow
Garden KnowHow
We offer all you need to create and maintain a garden that suits your lifestyle. From advice on design to planting, pruning and care, we will ensure you have time to enjoy your garden. Garden KnowHow near Wendover has built a reputation for creating stunning planting schemes, choosing plants that work hard and add colour throughout the year. We listen to our clients’ needs and work to their budget.
We are an enthusiastic, reliable, friendly and female-led team, committed to our clients’ horticultural needs. Our staff are qualified and fully insured. Whether you need a team of gardeners once a month; your baskets or borders planted for the season; a complete garden makeover or someone with the knowledge and ability to give you the confidence to do it yourself - Garden KnowHow can show you how.
In addition, Garden KnowHow undertakes corporate contracts for hotels, restaurants, offices and show houses, where we ensure corporate image is always maintained and show house gardens are kept immaculate throughout the selling process.
Garden Knowhow works with Roo's Landscape Installations for hard landscaping and garden construction projects.
Tips for May 2012
Sow cut and come again salads and herbs for harvest in just four weeks
Protect herbaceous plants from slugs and snails
Buy summer bedding or begin hardening off the plants you have grown in the greenhouse.
Plant out tender summer bedding, dahlias and vegetables at the end of the month
Lightly trim box and formal hedges.
Take softwood cuttings of shrubs
Feed and weed lawns, mow regularly.
Put in support for tall perennials
Pinch out the tip of strong shoots on fuchsias and bedding plants for bushy growth
Deadhead faded flowers from bulbs such as daffodils and tulips but leave foliage to die down naturally as it replenishes the bulbs for next year
