The Garden Minute: Fantastical Blooms, Winter Garden Inspiration & Havens for Wildlife.

☀️ Happy Monday Gardeners! Let us ease back into the start of a new week with a pinch of green fingered goodness.

✂️🌱 Curated Cuttings

A round-up of tips, tricks and news snippets on all things garden-related.

🪴 Houseplant of the week: resurrection plant

🐦 Expert advice on feeding garden birds in winter

⛄ How to prepare raised beds for winter

💡 The best solar garden lights of 2024

🌼 Alan Titchmarsh shares the 'unfashionable' plant he loves

🖊️ Editor's Letter: A love letter to the humble garden

🎄 Have a stately Christmas: 10 historic houses and gardens

🌱 Gardening expert shares 'lightbulb technique' for planting bulbs

🍃 How to grow eucalyptus for a delightfully fragrant home

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🗺️ Let’s explore …

A spotlight on spectacular gardens

Water gardens of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka

Since the dawn of recorded history on the island of Sri Lanka, man-made water systems have been very much a part of its landscape. The almost 2,000-year-old systems that harnessed the flow of water, transformed land and life, and today are part of the site of the elegant Water Garden hotel in Sri Lanka.

Read more here

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📍 Local news

From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?

📍 Behind the scenes at Helmingham Hall Gardens in Suffolk

📍 18 of the best Christmas markets in the UK for 2024

📍 Approval for New York City-style High Line park

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Happy gardening!