Trees and palms blog | fruit trees, frost and palms
Trees and palms guides for a UK garden: fruit tree prices, blossom frost, bare-root planting, stone-fruit pruning, watering, and palms that stay outside.
Hardy palm trees UK: which ones stay outside in winter
You have seen a palm beside a pub in Cornwall, or in a London courtyard that misses the worst of the wind, and you want that plant in your own border.
Artificial tree or real plant UK: choose by the light
You have a rented lounge, one useful window, and a corner that still looks empty after the sofa went in. Artificial tree or real plant UK is the choic
Protect fruit blossom from frost UK: save the crop
You come out on a bright April morning and the apricot looks scorched. Yesterday the fan was white. Today the petals are brown, the stalks behind them
Olive tree or kentia palm indoors: match that room
The pot is in the hallway because that is where the photo looked balanced, and the leaves are already disappointing you. Olive tree or kentia palm ind
How to plant a bare root tree UK: soil line and soak
The sack is on the path, the roots are a pale bundle with no compost on them, and the bed is either frozen or full of last night's rain. How to plant
When to prune an apricot tree UK: dry-day summer cuts
The secateurs are out because the apple was a straightforward January job, and the apricot on the fence looks like the same shape of tree. When to pru
Tree preservation order garden tree: before you cut
Someone has told you a fruit tree in your own garden is yours to fell. Tree preservation order garden tree is the check that sentence skips. In Englan
How often to water a newly planted tree: year one
You planted a tree this spring, and by a warm afternoon in July the leaves hang even though you watered yesterday. The soil on top looks dark. That co
Fruit tree cost UK: bare-root, pot and patio prices
You have a bare-root apricot at £35 in one tab, a patio tree at £61.95 in another, and a marketplace pot at £34.99 that only states a 19 cm pot. Fruit
Signs a fruit tree is dying: wait, cut, or report
You walk out in July and the apricot that flowered in March has a full set of leaves, a few empty spurs, and one branch that looks pale beside the res