John Warrington

It is one of the amazing things about trees and shrubs.

Plants grown for the beauty of their leaves are just as important as those grown for their flowers. 

I have just finished reading a gardening magazine produced for the English market.

Whales can be 50ft in length, weigh 20 tons, and have a appetite to match.

If your garden occasionally begins to look like a paddy field or you get pools of water which lie on the ground for quite long periods of time, then you almost certainly have a drainage problem.

Most gardeners will know that the bulb is a development in plants which is designed to assist them survive long periods of dormancy that occur in dry places on earth.

Many gardeners prefer the smaller garden for they have little time or inclination for anything larger.

When I was a young lad growing up in the Lancashire/Yorkshire we had a patio which started off its life with my family as a truncated cricket pitch.

Just a few words to finish off what I was saying last Sunday about ornamental pools in the garden.

In Guyana, or at least in Georgetown, I don’t suppose that many gardeners feel any urgent need to have a water feature in the garden, because for a disproportionate amount of time you have an excess of it! 

In England there’s an old saying: ‘When the March winds do blow, we shall have snow.’

I wish you all a very good morning and would like to introduce you to a few concepts regarding sowing and growing.

Since early childhood when I lived in the Lake District of England in an old farmhouse, I have been afraid of bats. 

You really have to enjoy gardening to embrace it as a hobby, and those of us that do become part of what you might call ‘the magic circle,’ a very superior kind of old boys/old girls’ association, in which honours are earned more by the number of blisters on your hands than anything else.

The South American continent has played a vitally important part in the culinary improvements of peoples throughout the world, not to mention (yet) of the ornamental delights the world enjoys. It

I know that most of you are sitting having breakfast in the warmth of a Guyana morning. 

When you go to a nursery to purchase shrubs in containers you will, of course, have to establish that they are not newly potted before you plant them into the garden.

Many people are often confused about cacti and succulents, all types of which have developed the ability to store large quantities of water in their tissue as a guard against drought. What

Many of you will have heard of Marie Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI of France. While

Continuing with the theme of propagation I would like to say a few words about two other ways to increase your stock of plants.