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Growing a yew hedge

By Kate Bradbury on 25/01/2013 12:54:24

. Undeterred, I thought I’d try something else for 2013: yew, Taxus baccata. I’m very fond of yew; I love seeing gnarled old trees in graveyards, exploring the patterns and fissures of their bark. Left alone, yews can grow for centuries. One specimen


Winkworth Arboretum

By Pippa Greenwood on 12/12/2012 16:07:36

stride and fill my lungs with fresh air.One of the great things about visiting arboreta is seeing plants that would never fit into an average domestic garden. Winkworth has a magnificent collection of more than 1,000 mature trees and shrubs, including


The juniper shieldbug

By Richard Jones on 01/02/2013 12:55:51

A few days ago some bright yellow no-parking cones were lined up along the kerb a few doors down from me. Tree works, it seemed, were taking place. It wasn’t until the whine of the chainsaws started up that it dawned on me what trees were being


Ardkinglas Woodland Garden

By on 11/04/2013 12:22:51

894Ardkinglas Estate, Cairndow, Argyll01499 600 261www.ardkinglas.comPA26 8BHOpen all year, daily, dawn-dusk. Adults £4.50, OAPs £3.50, under-16s free. Single discount with card: 20%.parking,toilets,part-disabled,plants,picnic,dogs,public-transport


Protecting fruit from birds

By Adam Pasco on 04/10/2010 11:37:46

Despite summer drought in my part of the East Midlands, my apple crop has been pretty good on most trees, but there’s just one problem. A much larger proportion of fruit than ever before has been pecked on the tree itself, resulting in small holes


Cherries, plums and gages

By Pippa Greenwood on 27/07/2011 14:49:35

It's been a great year for stone fruit crops, apparently, with commercial cherry growers reporting bumper harvests. We have a couple of cherry trees here, but I've yet to taste a ripe fruit from them – the birds always get there first. I know we


Introducing Parrotia persica

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 03/02/2009 13:37:22

Do you know a tree called Parrotia persica? At this time of year it is a light among the gloom. Most trees are without leaves in winter and there is only so much satisfaction that you can get from a tracery of damp twigs. About now I start dreaming


Rotten apples

By Pippa Greenwood on 03/01/2008 09:16:00

Thank heavens for apples! We had a fantastic crop of apples this year, despite the fact that many of the trees are not that well established. The apple tree I have mentioned before, as being a great ingredient for tarte tatin or what we call 'Dutch


Birds: thrushes and fieldfares

By Richard Jones on 20/01/2010 16:31:48

have pointed out, snow does make birds all the more obvious. When I peered out later in the day, the apple tree was bending under the burden of several plump … birds. They were silhouetted against the morning light so not immediately identifiable


Nail gall

By Gardeners' World on 18/10/2011 15:38:24

The pointed nail galls are caused by microscopic mites, which overwinter in the bark of lime trees and crawl on to the underside of the foliage in spring to feed. The mites secrete chemicals into the leaves causing them to produce the unusual


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