July Garden Check List for Northern Hemisphere Gardens

• Rose care: Keep on dead heading your roses. Tidy up your rose bushes and apply some lovely compost or a general fertilizer.
• Summer prune your fruit trees
• Lift your spring flowering bulbs ( all their leaves are now dead)
• Continue sowing vegetables, and harvest your onions and shallots.
• Plant some colorful plants in your borders
• Feed and water your summer beds
• Don’t forget to take special care of your container plants.

July Garden Check List for Southern Hemisphere Gardens

• Evaluate your garden design for form and structure
• Plan any changes you need to make to your garden
• Ensure you have taken the necessary precautions for the cold
• Complete your winter pruning
• Grow trees and shrubs for winter color and structure
• Plant deciduous trees (only if your ground is not too wet or frozen)

The Latest Addition to Design-Gardens.com Website

I have just added a page on Tips on How to Build a Pond. These ten tips on how to build a pond have been acquired through experience. I have had my fair share of fixing leaking ponds. During these difficult times I have found some excellent solutions on how to build a pond that copies nature and which is durable.

I found that prevention is better than cure! A garden pond must be constructed correctly to prevent a load of problems later on. This collection of tips covers pond construction, some ideas to copy nature, pump selection and even something on a bog garden.

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