Phil Keymer | Roseland Online

August

At last it’s here! August, this is the one month of the year when I advocate sitting back and looking at what you have achieved in your garden. That is easy to...

July

Three cheers for the man who strimmed my local roadside hedge!! Of course he did a wonderful job, widening the road and making the visibility round the corners so much easier, but...

June

It’s the time of year when I really have to force myself to prioritise. It seems that everything needs doing from weeding to planting, sowing, and filling the remaining hanging baskets that...

May

It goes without saying that we are all busy sowing and growing as the days lengthen and the soil warms up. A good indicator of both these facts is the weed growth....

April

There is something rather lovely about the emergence of spring. Perhaps I am enjoying it more this year because it seems to have been so slow arriving. The odd promising day and...

March

March! Probably my favourite month and when writing a column like this it is probably the one month when I will never be short of things to say or do. Several years...

February

Bearing in mind the continuously cold weather and at the risk of boring the knowledgeable people amongst you, I am going to start covering some very basic concepts of gardening which are...

January

We will all have appreciated that many large private gardens developed in the mid to late 1800s by the grand Victorian gardeners were the product of the plant hunters who brought us...

December

It has been a hairy few weeks of wind, rain and then a bit more of both but more forceful!! I do find strong wind very tiring to work in and frankly...

November

We have enjoyed a few beautiful days of sunshine during October and I believe almost record temperatures for this time of year. It does not make up for the dreadful summer but...