Suffolk-based Ade Sellars is the Good Life Gardener, award-winning writer and presenter who gives talks and demonstrations around the country.

As we move into winter, the trees and shrubs in our landscapes are dormant, so pruning will not stimulate new growth that might be damaged by winter cold. A wide variety of evergreen plants may be ...

Woolly aphids feed on apples and ornamentals that are closely related, such as crab apples, chaenomeles, cotoneaster and pyracantha ... which find new areas to colonise then produce young. In July ...

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Pruning is a popular winter gardening task, but we thought we'd take a look at the plants you should never prune in December ...

Pruning is ideal for many plants in or before winter because they are dormant, so stress on the plant is minimal. However, ...

Pruning serves many purposes: it encourages bigger yields, ensures that newly planted trees and shrubs have a strong beginning, stimulates flowering, shapes plants, cuts away diseased wood ...

One of the most crucial tasks to tackle in gardens throughout the year is pruning. Essentially, pruning is about selectively trimming parts of a plant to ... time boosts "new growth" come spring ...

To reflower next autumn, the plant will need 10 to 12 hours of darkness and can be moved to a brighter area once buds form. Pruning a Christmas cactus is best done in spring rather than during ...

TAMMY: It’s the swollen, woody part of some plants that forms at soil level. It looks like part of the roots but it’s a stem that grows above ground. They’re important adaptations of some ...

You should continue the tip pruning process throughout the growing season. This means going over your plant about once every two to three weeks and pinching out all the tips on the new growth ...