Tag: pruning
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A rambling rose
Surprisingly challenging task for me in the herb garden today, where I was asked to prune a rambling rose to fit on an arch. I had never done that and my colleague explained we were cutting back 1/3rd of the older branches to the ground, then arranging the remaining ones on the arch and shortening…
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Trained apples and pears
This has been an unusual summer, dry and warm and apples and pears have not started growing until very recently, that is why summer pruning had not been done before in the fruit garden. But as it’s now October, and the new shoots have stiffened at their tips (previously sappy growth), it was finally time to…
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Pruning cordons
Pink currants (Ribes rubrum cultivars) Soft fruit shrubs tend put up a lot of growth over the summer, and the last of summer pruning needed doing to keep the trained forms in check and tidy, so I was asked to start working on currants and gooseberries, cutting new growth back to 1-3 buds. Currants before…
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Young apple trees, old apple trees
The London Orchard Project gave me the opportunity to spend another two lovely days pruning. Yesterday, we were in Fryent Park, taking care of a young orchard that had never been pruned before and whose trees required formative pruning. It was a lovely sunny day, and a rather big team was set loose on a…
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What a worthwhile pursuit to restore an orchard!
It was Twitter that brought that to my attention: volunteers required for an orchard restoration project. Restoring an orchards is such a worthwhile project. Appeals against the disappearance of the traditional British orchard have gone on for a while now, the NT and Natural England have long campaigned to save orchards as a matter of…
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The art and science of pruning (Week 18, Thursday and Friday)
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Neillia (Week 10, Thursday)
I was not familiar with the genus Neillia before I spent a whole afternoon digging ground elder from under one. That was an opportunity to become closely acquainted; I took the pictures below. There is probably a reason why I did not know Neillia, and it’s because there doesn’t seem to be much information around…
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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