Frogheath has had a busy time this summer, but has we head into autumn, people put their garden furniture away and some of their garden to bed for the winter. In this autumn newsletter, we explain some of the things we’ve been up to and what can be done in the months ahead.

Planting

This year has been an amazing year for plant growth; our gardens have thoroughly appreciated the
seemingly constant rainfall. As a consequence, some shrubs have grown so well that pruning, reshaping and editing work might be required to regain some control ready for next year.

Frogheath will be carrying out this work throughout autumn and early winter – if you need any similar
work done in your garden, please contact us for more information.
Bulb planting time is coming around again and Frogheath have found some interesting wholesale bulb
suppliers. We will be ordering in bulk for some of our new 2024 gardens. If you would like to take
advantage of this, we would be delighted to add you to the orders and, if you wish, take on the tedious
task of planting them for you.

Autumn is always a great time to re-assess the successes and failures in our gardens. Gaps can be
plugged with new plants; ground-cover planting can be increased for weed-suppressions. Bare-root
roses and bare-root shrubs are excellent value and can be ordered now for planting from November
onwards. We’ve had great success this year with a very large border on a slope, planted mainly with
economical bare-root shrubs and roses last winter, which now looks remarkably established and
colourful.

Award Winning Accessible Gardens

We’ve been delighted this year to help several long-standing and new customers to adapt their
gardens to make them easier to maintain and safer to access and navigate. Sometimes, this was as
simple as adapting the planting to make it more shrubby with weed-suppressing mulch, thus cutting
down on maintenance.

Some clients needed borders removed and turfed over. One client needed wider paths to allow the
use of mobility aids. Handrails and balustrades can also be fitted to help cope with steps and slopes.
One of our APL (Association of Professional Landscapers) Awards this year was for an accessible
garden where we created curved raised beds. The absence of corners made the beds easier to access
for our wheelchair bound customer.

Contact Frogheath

Please do get in touch if you would like the Frogheath team to make any changes you would like to
your garden, not only to help it thrive but also for it to work for you so you can continue to enjoy it for
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