Tony's Tips - November 2026
The recent rainfall and warmer days have created ideal growing conditions and the garden is loving it!
Hydrangeas are looking spectacular. We have a beautiful range of varieties, colours and types, bursting with flowers and buds. They thrive in organically enriched soil, in east-or south-facing positions or dappled shade. They can also grow beautifully in pots, where you can control their growing conditions. With the right care, their magnificent blooms can brighten your home as cut flowers for weeks.
Add a splash of colour with Mandevillas. We now have both the taller, more vigorous Agathe varieties in red and white and the bushier Aloha varieties in pink, red and white. Perfect for pots, courtyards and adding a burst of colour to your outdoor spaces throughout the warmer months.
Get your summer colour started. We have plenty of Vinca seedlings, more chilli varieties and a great selection of tomato seedlings ready to go.
Want a colourful display in your pots, hanging baskets and garden beds for Christmas? Now is the time to plant! Get in early this November to give your plants the best possible start.
Pop into Acorn Nursery and let us help you get growing this spring.
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Traditional Hydrangea  |
Magical Pearl Hydrangea  |
Things to Do:
1. Cut your lavender
“Horned or winged” lavenders should be cut back as they finish flowering, as hard as you can whilst still leaving green viable foliage to draw the sap up. Never cut a lavender back to bare wood! Deadhead clematis to encourage new growth and flowers.
2. Feed Gardenias
Give your Gardenias their third feed of the spring with Harry’s Gardenia Food.
3. Time for a trim
Trim roses back after the first flush is finished and feed to encourage new flush of growth and flowers. Also, trim spring flowering shrubs like Azaleas, Spireas etc to improve shape and set up for next year’s flowering.
4. Protect from pests
Protect Azaleas and Viburnums from Azalea Lace Bug with Conguard or Bug Killa.
5. Treat your lawn
Lawn Beetle Grub has started again in some lawns, so treat now before too much damage is done.
6. Get dusting
Protect tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini with tomato dust.