How do I plant a nice shrub in my garden ?
I have a plain garden around which I need to plant some nice looking shrubs to make it interesting. I have zero knowledge about gardening and planting anything !
Basic help would be much appreciated
The best way to get the shrubs growing away healthily is to make a hole twice as big as the pot that the shrub came in (as another correspondent says). Give the bottom of the hole and the soil for the hole filling a good sprinkle of bone meal and, preferably, mix some peaty compost with it but not entirely necessary if your soil is quite a good texture. Place the plant in the hole so that it will be the same depth in your garden as it was in the pot and then start to fill in the hole around it, firming the soil as you go. Water well and then stand back and watch for results. The reason for the bonemeal is that, unlike annuals, you won’t be disturbing this plant again so the meal will decompose very slowly over a year or two and so give feed at the roots as the plant is establishing.
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