The Garden Minute: Expert Autumn Tips, Low Effort Design & Edible Gardens
☀️ Good morning Gardeners. Need a little Monday Motivation? Here's a round up of gardenspiration to set you up for the week ahead.
✂️🌱 Curated Cuttings
A round-up of tips, tricks and news snippets on all things garden-related.
🌻 The low-effort garden that thrives in any weather
🍂 The best garden rakes for 2024, tried and tested
🐦⬛ What to not feed garden birds - harmful foods to avoid
🌸 25 Best-Smelling Flowers for an Amazingly Fragrant Garden
🪴 Master your autumn garden with these expert companion planting tips
As it is a bank holiday here in the UK, here are some plant and garden offers I have found for you today:
Save 20% on the Elegance Inverted Obelisk at Agriframes today
Get 3 x Corkscrew Rush (Juncus Effusus Spiralis) for just £8.99 at Plant Drops
Save 20% on all plants and bulbs at Crocus.co.uk
Save 25% with the code herb25 at White Rose Herbs on their Rosemary collection today
Save £5 on the Acer palmatum Sango Kaku - Coral Bark Maple at Gardening Express.
☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
Feeling peckish? Tuck into this tasty tale:
A brief history of the kitchen garden, and where to find them
“When we now talk of a ‘kitchen garden’ the image most probably conjured up is of a beautiful walled Victorian acre or two, its box-edged beds neatly divided by gravel paths, and its warm brick walls covered in espaliered fruit trees, and this is a common sight on Sunday-afternoon visits to country houses up and down the country. These are the ultimate kitchen gardens of the wealthy and offer an insight into all the innovations and ingenuity of the past.”
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
Gardener, presenter, author, environmentalist, conservationist, and crafter - Frances Tophill has a lot of wisdom to share.
Her instagram feed is a mix of plant care, design ideas, inspiration and sneaky peeks of her own garden.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 'Most influential gardens ever created' go on show in Surrey
📍 Stolen milestone found installed as garden ornament
📍 ‘We tried Webbs Garden Centre's new Flora Fields experience’
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Happy gardening! Jess x