Brighten up January with summer flowers
Hot colours for a summer bedding scheme Winter gardening articles abound with sparkling images of snow covered trees and frosted grasses and today in Kent was just one of those days but the reality is more often just dank and cold offering little incentive to venture outside. How much better to do your ‘gardening’ inside this month and cheer yourself up...
A New Year’s Resolution for Gardeners
There's always time for a sociable tea break We all know that gardening is good for you so if you are looking for a New Year’s Resolution to benefit your health, instead of giving up this or that why not resolve to do more of something that you actually like? Yes, more Gardening! As well as mild physical exercise there is a...
Colour in your garden in winter
The recent onset of cold weather and the first frosts make it obvious that our gardens will not be awash with colourful flowers for the next three months but that does not mean that you need to look out a dull, empty space throughout the winter. You just have to look beyond flowers to what else plants can offer. Coppery, flaking...
Nature friendly gardening
There are plenty of green buzzwords around in gardening at the moment such as eco, sustainable and even ‘green’ itself, although how you can have non green gardening is a bit of a mystery! I am sure that all of us would like to live our lives in a way that protects our planet but does not require sitting in...
How Impressionist painters help gardeners
It may seem that the broad-brush style of the Impressionist painters clashes with the science and plant by plant design of the gardens that they so often painted. However, Impressionist paintings can help us in the process of tweaking or totally redesigning beds and borders in our own gardens. And October is an ideal time to review and revise planting...