Eggleston Hall Gardens Journal

How to prune Raspberries
Raspberries offer gardeners one of the greatest returns on investment of any garden plant. Easy to grow, easy to prune, easy to jam, easy to...
Read MoreLords, Ladies & Childhood Worms!
The delightful 'Arum italicum pictum' has been with us since the mid 1600s and is a plant beloved by flower arrangers (I spit on their...
Read MoreOne in a 234....A lovely double yellow Hellebore
Very occasionally nurserymen get lucky.....we sow a few hundred seeds, prick-out a hundred or two seedlings, then await the results. It can take several years...
Read MoreWinter Flowering Shrubs
There are few more delights in the winter garden than the Cornelian Cherry Dogwood 'Cornus mas' with its abundance of sulphur yellow flowers borne from...
Read MoreWillow Wands; How to take cuttings of them
This orange stemmed plant is a willow, and willows are amongst the easiest plants in the world to propagate, it was looking particularly attractive this...
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Recent Journal Entries
- How to sow seeds of Hardy Plants (uncut/unedited version)30th May, 2013
- The Dilemma; An assessment of risk30th May, 2013
- How to prune Raspberries18th March, 2013
- Lords, Ladies & Childhood Worms!18th March, 2013
- One in a 234....A lovely double yellow Hellebore13th March, 2013