Gardening advice from Nick Milham
Nick Millham Head Gardener.
A beautifully laid out garden with more than 150 varieties of roses, the garden is a source of inspiration and ideas for planting solutions.
The garden, which contains a wide range of the plants that are available for sale, is free to enjoy.
We strive to be a leading plant centre specialising in all your practical, essential and design needs. Our friendly staff are always on hand with advice and expertise.
Currently available in the Hiller Garden
The Hiller Garden offers
An extensive range of fresh young perennials from the Barbara Austin collection.
A superb range of trees and shrubs from local nurseries.
A wide range of young herbs, Flower and vegetable seeds.
Onion sets and seed potatoes ready to plant out.
Local varieties of fruit trees.
David Austin Roses and old fashioned varieties.
Peat free composts fertilizers and garden tools.
Yorkshire flower pots
Metal garden furniture with great designs for plant supports.
And much more!
Visit the Hiller garden for free and take a stroll along the gravelled paths to see hellebores, cyclamen coums and snow drops at there best.
In the Hiller garden the air is full of sweet scent from the Sarcococca confusa, ‘Christmas box’ as we dig and mulch the borders in readiness for the spring. The winter so far has been mild so we have to tread carefully amongst emerging spring bulbs and perennials, for example helleborus x hybidus ‘Harvington’ with colours of smoky blues, steely blues speckled whites and picotee. We remove unwanted foliage to expose the flowers.
There is still time to prune your shrub roses, a general guide is to remove all diseased wood and crossing stems then cut back a third off new growth just above a bud. Apply fertilizer and mulch round the base of the roses to finish off.
The late spring and early summer flowering clematis need to be trimmed low as possible now. Prune buddleias hard, keeping them compact this will encourage them to flower lower down.
Tips
Plant out snowdrops in the green and other spring flowering bulbs like daffodils.
Insulate your greenhouse for early sowings and pot up summer flowering begonia and dahlia tubers.
Mow your lawn on a high setting; try to do it on dry days.
Divide congested perennials, to invigorate the plant and give you extra plants for free.
Dunnington Heath Farm, Dunnington, ALCESTER, Warwickshire B49 5PD
Tel: 01789 772771
www.hillers.co.uk
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