The weather has changed and your plants are going to suffer if you don’t get them wrapped!  Plants that are in pots that are not undercover or pretected by anything should be brought closer to the house or put in the garage.  Palm trees, New Zealand flax, hardy bananas and roses are getting mulched and [...]

    Walking to work the other day I noticed a lot of damage in the trees…as in caterpillar damage. The best solution is called BTK. This is a product that you spray on your trees, and when those little pests start eating it takes care of them!  It will be their last meal! Oh, that [...]

Obviously slug n’ snail season is here because people keep coming in with chewed-up leaves and plants covered in slimy trails. Most people have depended on Corry’s Slug n Snail Bait for years to get rid of the crawly little buggers but many shoppers are now turning to “safer” alternatives. Which is not to say [...]

We all have areas in our gardens that are difficult, too wet too dry, too hot too shady. Thus making planting quite difficult. Why not try using statues and / or garden art rather than plants as focal points in those ares? For instance using a set of brightly coloured metallic gazing balls in dry [...]

I had a phone call the other day regarding a cedar hedge dying ( not uncommon at all). It had been installed 3 weeks prior to this call. Symptoms were overall browning of the foliage and a limp appearance. Of course the caller suggested the trees must have a diseases. This is such a common [...]