The Garden Minute: Green Havens, Community Gardens & George Harrison's Career Change 🎶

☀️ Good morning Gardeners. Need a little Monday Motivation? Here's a round up of gardenspiration to set you up for the week ahead.

Sep 23, 2024

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

🍂 I love gazing at my garden as summer melds into autumn. Then I start to plan

🍁 How to add colour to your garden this autumn, according to an expert

🪨 18 composting tips I learned spending a day with no dig expert Charles Dowding

🌱 How to save money and get an early start with seed collection in Autumn

🪑 Job all gardeners should do this month to avoid getting mouldy furniture

Garden Offer: 3 x Nepeta subsessilis ‘Prelude Blue’ for £7.99 at Plant Drops

☕ The Long Read

Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break

🎶 George Harrison left The Beatles, turned to gardening, & created a masterpiece 🎶

‘The garden at Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames — the Oxfordshire home of the late Beatle George Harrison and his wife Olivia — is breathtaking. The ‘Gardening Beatle’ did a spectacular job of reviving an historic alpine garden in the shadow of the ‘Henley Matterhorn’, and Olivia has enhanced what was Britain’s largest rock garden with her exceptional and imaginative planting schemes.’

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📱 Ones to watch

Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week

The Allotment Garden & Kitchen channel provides tips and tricks about how to sow and grow Fruit, Vegetables and Flowers, and easy and simple recipe ideas for using all of this wonderful produce.

Growing is a journey of discovery and things that may work one year may not work the following year in the same way and it is these experiences that provide the real learning experience. The secret is to keep trying!