Bluebelle Gardening Services

30/04/2019

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30/04/2019

A couple more before and afters! Drop us a message for a free quote 🌳🌻🌿

30/04/2019

Check out these before and afters! If you're gardens looking tired and it needs a spruce ready for summer, inbox us a message for a free quote! 🌱🌻🌳

27/03/2018

April is coming, so Lift and divide perennial plants now to improve their vigour and create new plants for your garden.

Divide Hostas before they come into leaf.

Divide Primroses after they have finished flowering.

You can start to move evergreen shrubs and trees now provided the soil isn't frozen or waterlogged.

Plant summer-flowering bulbs such as Lilies, Gladiolus and Ranunculus into beds, borders and containers.

07/03/2018

Top 10 jobs this month

1.Protect new spring shoots from slugs

2.Plant shallots, onion sets and early potatoes

3.Plant summer-flowering bulbs

4.Lift and divide overgrown clumps of perennials

5.Top dress containers with fresh compost

6.Mow the lawn on dry days (if needed)

7.Cut back Cornus (dogwood) and Salix (willow) grown for colourful winter stems

8.Hoe and mulch weeds to keep them under control early

9.Start feeding fish and using the pond fountain; remove pond heaters

10.Prune bush and climbing roses

07/03/2018

Busy day in Aldercar, tidying planters and planting bulbs for Aldercar and Langley parish council.

23/02/2018

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03/02/2018

Now is an excellent time to create a pond. It will be ready for the frogs when they start looking for water next month for their spawn

03/02/2018

An organic lawn is not hard to achieve. It just needs some basic care, not chemicals.
In frosty or snowy weather, keep off the grass. It can cause significant damage and lead to disease later in the year.
If areas of the lawn tend to hold puddles, spike with a garden fork to the total depth of the tines.
Use an organic lawn fertilizer to give the grass a good start to the season. Chase Lawn Fertiliser (spring treatment) is available from

03/02/2018

Give your compost heap a 'spring turn' this month. Turning will aerate and stimulate the heap. If it's too dry, continue adding wet kitchen waste, and water it occasionally. If too wet, add more carbon-rich stuff such as twigs, scrumpled cardboard and paper waste, to open up and aerate the heap.

If the soil isn't too wet, start to dig in overwintered green manures such as grazing rye and winter tares, the frost should have killed them back.

Buy new potting compost (peat free and organic) for this year’s sowing and growing. Last year’s product shouldn’t be used as it deteriorates over winter. Spread the old stuff over the garden, or use it as top dressing on the lawn.
Start sowing hardy annual flower seeds in cleaned pots/trays under cover. Choose plants that will attract beneficial insects into your organic garden. Seed trays and pots should be clean; Potting compost should be fresh; Watering should be from below, and be clean tap water; Keep watering to a minimum; Seedlings must have plenty of light and ventilation, and not be too sown too thickly
If a frost is forecast, be sure to protect any tender plants

Continue to remove dead or dying leaves from plants indoors and out. Put them on the compost heap. Good hygiene is an essential part of keeping the garden healthy. Botrytis (grey mould) will attack any dead plant material. Once established, it will quickly move onto living plants and cause extensive damage, sometimes even plant death.

Clean pots and trays thoroughly before starting to sow new seeds. Pests and diseases can overwinter in old potting compost, surviving to damage newly emerging seedlings. Scrub well in hot soapy water.
Clean the glass of any algae that has developed during the past few months. Sweep out the whole place to get rid of as many overwintering pests as possible.

23/01/2018

February is fast approaching, so get ready to, Trim winter-flowering heathers as the flowers disappear, to prevent the plants becoming leggy.

Remove any faded flowers from your winter pansies to stop them setting seed. This will encourage a flush of new flowers when the weather warms up.

Lift and divide snowdrops still 'in the green' if you want to move them or create more plants.

01/01/2018

Happy New year
There's not be much going on in the garden this month of January, however there's still plenty that you can be getting on with - burning off some of those Christmas calories at the same time.

Get ahead with key winter gardening jobs now, and you'll be all set for the planting and sowing frenzy that's just around the corner in spring.
Time to get that greenhouse cleaned inside. and out.