Hello and welcome all – this month I’ve got a feature about a local North Norfolk pub who’ve turned their garden around to open outdoors last Monday, a couple of gardening programmes I’m recommending and to top it off a mention of a rare garden event I’m looking forward to – oh and not forgetting […]
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Gardening Tips: April 2016
Gardens are leaping into life, there is frog spawn in the ponds, hedgerows are full of birdsong and plants are now enjoying all the benefits that we are, the longer days and the warmer weather. Daylilies are up and tulips. You might notice weeds have sprung into action too but thankfully my winter work has […]
Gardening Tips: March 2016
Spring is here and our traditional spring flowers are part of the welcome party – hyacinths with their strong scent and cheery daffodils marking the new season. Of course, now that the weather is warming up and the clocks go forward at the end of the month giving us longer daylight hours, we’ll have more […]
Gardening Tips: May 2015
Warmer mornings filled with sunshine are what I’ve been longing for and the chorus of lawn mowers is a reminder that the grass cutting season has begun! Walking out into the garden you can find Paeony flower buds the size of golf balls, bleeding hearts shyly flowering away and the beds and borders springing to […]
Gardening Tips: April 2015
April is a beautiful month and a special one for me as I celebrate my birthday, and of course quite often like this year, there is Easter too! I love Easter not just for the bank holidays and mountains of chocolate to gorge my way through, but there are so many beautiful plants flowering at […]
Gardening tips: March 2015
It’s spring! It may not feel like it with the biting cold winds and the dark evenings and the garden looking sometimes quite drab and forlorn – but looking underneath the pools of leaves and brushing aside the crispy brown foliage you will spot some surprising and welcome signs of spring. I’ve been enjoying watching […]