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Box Caterpillar

There is an epidemic of this little beast around the Winchester and Chandler’s Ford areas and probably further afield. Keep an eye on your box hedges, do not ignore brown leaves.

This can be easily treated and dealt with.

Look for caterpillars and remove them, importantly look for the eggs and get rid of these. Cut your box hedge back neatly (so you have less plant to treat) and apply Xen Tari, readily available on Amazon. I have box hedging in both my front and back gardens, this year has been the first year that the moth has visited my garden. I have dealt with it and no plants have been lost.

Planting

I have been using the same supplier for 20 years and have an excellent working relationship with them. Planting is a very important part of the process. If you do not need help with design but your garden lacks planting, I am very happy to help you with your planting scheme – I provide fully itemised spreadsheets for plants supplied and can set these out for you to plant.

Material Demand & prices

There is still a shortage of a lot of materials and material pricing has fluctuated ‘up’ due to supply and demand.  Forward planning is essential.

Hot Tubs

My garden design clients can obtain a discount from Happy Hot Tubs, the South’s leading distributor. I will give you a discount code on completion of design. www.happyhottubs.co.uk

Fire Pits

I am able to organise a discount for my design clients from Elementi Fires.www.elementifires.co.uk

Suppliers and samples

I have predominantly specified paving and composite decking supplied by LondonStone. I have sample boxes from this supplier. www.londonstone.co.uk

There is a new local supplier called Forest Stone based at the NewForest Fencing site in Nursling. They specialise in porcelain and natural stone paving. I have now specified their paving several times and look forward to working closely with this new local supplier, you can find more information about them here - www.foreststone.uk.  

I also have artificial lawn samples from 3 different suppliers.