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Garden Design, Maintenance & Landscaping throughout Oxfordshire by Emma Owen - a passionate & qualified horticulturalist.

25/01/2022

🌳⛪️ Exciting times ahead! ⛪️ 🌳

Big work done today with my girl for . Can’t wait to see how this design progresses! Please let us know if you have any ideas/ wishes Oxford folks x

12/01/2022

🌸Happy Humpday!🌸

So nice to see that sun today twinkling off the Winter frost! Saw this beaut when I was defrosting my windscreen earlier ❄️

Commonly confused for cherries, this is actually a Viburnum farreri (Farrer’s viburnum). They flower similarly on bare stems, but usually a little earlier in the year. Native to China, they are fantastic mid-winter flowering shrubs which thrive in the cold, and despite their delicate appearance they are as hard as Phil Mitchell off Eastenders. 💪

Well worth a try if your garden is needing an extra pop of colour and a beautiful sweet smell this winter! 💖

09/01/2022

🐶Doin’ a help 🐶

✂️Pruning a this laurel a little bit early this year just so we could get past it with our tractor!

Lovely Phibes thought she would get in on the action by standing directly under the ladder to wait for sticks falling from the heavens. Not very helpful but a 11/10 for cute. 🥲

🌿Normally you would prune established Prunus laurocerasus (cherry laurel) hedges in late spring so the new leaf buds don’t get burnt by frost, but this beast will have another haircut then.

🏴‍☠️One thing that isn’t particularly commonly known is that all laurels with the exception of bay (Laurus nobilis) are poisonous. They release hydrocyanic acid (yep, cyanide) when cut and are toxic if they come into contact with your skin or their fumes are inhaled in large amounts in contained spaces.

🧤 It’s always important to wear PPE and dispose of cuttings sensibly and to be especially careful when handling. Luckily for us, Phibes is a wise old girl and knows to leave well alone.

Be careful out there lads! X

05/01/2022

✨HAPPY 2022!!✨

Hope you all had a lush Christmas and saw the shiny New Year in without too much of a headache?

It’s a beautiful cold crisp Winter’s day here today and these gorgeous Hamamelis x intermedia (hybrid witch-hazels) are going OFF! They even look like tiny fireworks 🎇!

The common name witch-hazel is slightly deceptive because they are not really true hazels, which are members of the Corylus genus. They don’t have delicious nuts, but they do produce fruit which literally explode their seeds out when they mature - sometimes up to 10 metres, which is pretty cool. 💥

🧙‍♀️ They’re not necessarily a witch’s fave either, the name comes from the Old English word ‘wych’ which means ‘bendy’ in reference to their stems. But, they do have some pretty magical properties…

💧Their forked stems have been used for centuries by First Nations people in America as dowsing rods to divine for water sources, much like true hazel in the UK.

😶‍🌫️ The bark and leaves can be steam-distilled to produce an essential oil which contains phytochemicals that have strong astringent/ antiseptic properties. Because of this it is traditionally a popular ingredient in skincare products. (Ask any of my old colleagues at haha)

👃They smell INSANELY good. They have a warm, sweet and spicy scent which really hits you on those cold winter days.

Hope you guys have started off 2022 like these guys: with a bang, feeling fresh, looking great and smelling good 😉 xx

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Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm

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