As the landscape is alight with fiery colour at present, it seems a good moment to examine why some plants change colour in the autumn, and lose their leaves, and indeed why others don’t.  Firstly though why do plants have leaves, what do they do? Plants unlike animals are able to synthesise their own food/energy stores, and the leaves are the main areas of energy harvesting.  Through the process of Photosynthesis plants are able to combine molecules of WATER and CARBON DIOXIDE into SUGAR and...

As gardeners you may think that winter is the time to start thinking about next year’s garden and planning the jobs ahead. Certainly it...

Welcome to autumn, and what looks to be a damp and rainy week ahead. The last few weeks have seen plenty of emergency watering, just...