Garden Maintenance: Lungworts (Pulmonaria)

Early-flowering ground cover like lungworts (Pulmonaria) can be freshened up by pruning spent flower stems. If the leaves get a bit of mold on them, you can cut them back and they will also regrow. 

Garden Maintenance: Tying in roses

Climbing and rambling roses should be tied in, training shoots as near as horizontal as possible. Training rose mainshoots horizontally causes more sideshoots to develop, producing more flowers

North London Lawn Care: Move perennials away from turf

Lawn tip: If any perennials have spread too close to the lawn edge: Lift, divide and replant where needed.

Wildlife and Gardening

Mr Robin is giving us a hand today

Planting Design: Nice plant combinations

Twisted Hazel with Erysimum and Daffs make a nice combination:

Planting Design: Skimmia, Cornus & Hyacinth

Skimmia, Cornus and Hyacinth make a nice winter-Spring plant combination

Planting Design: Primrose and Polyanthus

Q: What's the difference between a primrose and polyanthus? 
A: Polyanthus forms a rosette on a single stem.

Lawn Maintenance and Seeding

Repairing a client’s lawn by scarifying, raking and reseeding. If doing yourself, keep off the grass for 10 days.

Hampstead Heath Garden Maintenance

Tulips and euphorbia are blooming in a client's Hampstead garden. What signs of Spring are showing in your garden?

Garden Maintenance: Jet spraying can bring new life to furniture

Does your garden need cleaning and disinfecting? Let us help bring your furniture and garden back to life.

Garden Maintenance: Winter Heather

Trim back winter heather now to keep them dense. Remove flowers but not old wood because it doesn't grow again.

North London Garden Maintenance Tips: Wisteria

Now that the ground is warming up it is time to feed your wisteria to get the best flowers.

Highgate Garden Prune and Clean

Before and after garden tidy. Need help? Contact us at info@hedgehoggs.co.uk

North London Lawn Care: Scarifying tips

To scarify lawn: go over turf with a spring rake in 2 directions to remove moss. Then fertilise and seed.

North London Lawn Care Tip: Prepare soil well before seeding

To prepare soil for grass seed: fork surface, breaking down lumps, and rake to produce a fine crumbly surface

Garden Maintenance: Cornus & Salix Pruning

Prune willows grown for their ornamental stems now. Cornus and Salix produce the best colour on 1-year-old stems. Prune Cornus, Rubus and Salix hard, about 1-2 buds of last growth to leave a stub framework for next year's growth.

Hedge Trimming North London

This is one of our #hedges...but we also do normal, straight ones too!

North London Jet Spray Service

After and before: Jet spraying can bring your garden furniture back to life.

Planting Design: Harden off bedding before planting

After buying bedding plants, bring them in at night and put outside on mild days to harden off before planting.

London Lawn Care Tip

The ground is warming up so you can sow grass seed in next few weeks. Make sure to prepare the soil well first!