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October Garden Tips
Blazing October: And it’s not just about leaf colour; many shrubs and herbaceous plants continue giving of their best all through the month and on until nipped by the first wintery weather. Michaelmas daisies have [...]
September Garden Tips
Richness and colour for September: Michaelmas daisies (asters - see picture of Aster amellus 'Sonara' at Hauser and Wirth, Somerset) never fail to delight the eye and attract a variety of insects. The very word [...]
August Garden Tips
Looking up - Scramblers for summer: A plant that can scramble up through another and use it as a support can add another dimension of colour and scent to your garden. Honeysuckle is not [...]
July Garden Tips
Shady favourites: white and blue flowers to glow in low evening light. Shade in this case means protected from the sun during most of the day; under the canopy of large trees, or in the [...]
June Garden Tips
Buzz Buzz Buzz - listen to the sounds of bees working hard while you lie on the grass and stare at the sky. Try to provide flowers for bees all year round, also have a [...]
May Garden Tips
“..adorned like sweet May”: This is the time of year when foliage is at its freshest and most vivid. New grass lights the fields. In the garden unfolding leaves shine in the morning sun with [...]
April Garden Tips
Narcissus poeticus Scents in April: There may be the occasional warm day - it is possible. Warmth brings out the first scented flowers of the year, which are so welcome and so enjoyable, [...]
March Garden Tips
Cornus mas Flowers! Colour! Scent! Even though it’s freezing cold the days are getting longer and the landscape is no longer uniformly grey and brown. There are shrubs and bulbs doing their thing: [...]
February Garden Tips
Waterfall at Rode Hall, Cheshire Snowdrops have already made an appearance, OK early, but not ridiculously so. Last year on a cold clear day in February I went with Cheshire Gardens Trust to [...]
January Garden Tips
Pulmonaria rubra Mild: Due to the late arrival of winter there have been some unseasonal spring flowers appearing during December. Pulmonaria rubra is always early, but I’ve never seen it before Christmas, exchorda, [...]