The people behind HedgeGrowing Notes
Every guide here is written, tested and signed by a person. Four regulars, no ghostwriters.
Harriet Lowell Lead writer
Landscape design background in small spaces. she flags light and weight limits inside watering through flowering.
- Shaping a shrub rose: for a first attempt
- Spotting spider mite: out of the misconceptions
- Changing hydrangea colour: a cheaper route
- Propagating roses: the few lines you need
- Choosing varieties that cope: key points and exceptions
- Selecting cutting material: a cheaper route
- Air layering method: breaking the problem apart
- Germination rates in old seed: out of the misconceptions
Delphine Roux Contributing editor
Eight years writing gardening features, against treating plants as decor. she keeps them alive first, then beautiful.
- The three feeding moments: for a first attempt
- Deadheading after the flush: why it keeps failing
- Pruning endless summer types: the few lines you need
- Grafting or cuttings: out of the misconceptions
- Roses on a balcony: it isn't actually complicated
- Do rooting powders help: key points and exceptions
- When to divide plants: breaking the problem apart
- Using module trays: an honest three-month record
Curtis Vale Staff writer
Twelve years growing on balconies, with more failures than successes. he writes only what has been tested at home.
- Preventing black spot: an honest three-month record
- Winter protection: a cheaper route
- Shade for hydrangeas: a cheaper route
- Watering through flowering: breaking the problem apart
- The autumn rebloom: standard, rhythm, floor
- The potting-on step: why it keeps failing
- Moving water cuttings to soil: why it keeps failing
- Graft compatibility: an honest three-month record
Cecily Hart Regular contributor
Former nursery and flower-shop work, familiar with how varieties behave. she focuses on choosing and timing.
- Training a climber: breaking the problem apart
- Dealing with aphids: standard, rhythm, floor
- Replacing potted soil: it isn't actually complicated
- Propping up heavy heads: it isn't actually complicated
- Buds that refuse to open: when to change approach
- Protecting roots at planting out: breaking the problem apart
- Substrate for leaf cuttings: when to change approach
- Logging a sowing schedule: the few lines you need