The Garden Minute ⏰: Monday 10 June 2024
☀️ 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.
🏨 Elevate your staycations with The Telegraph’s best hotel gardens in the UK
👨🌾 Needs some Father’s Day inspo? Try these greenfinger gifts for your gardener Dad
🧺 The best plants to pop in a hanging basket? This gardening expert shares their faves
📅 Want to keep in top of your garden this month? Here’s what to prune in June.
🍓 Sick of strawberries going soggy before you can pick them? Try this …
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☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
‘I thought one afternoon, What if spring never returns? Right away I recognized the illogic and the melodrama of that thought. I had at my hand the words of two gardeners of yesteryear, books that had taken years to be written. Were these words not enough evidence that spring always comes, if not now, later?’
Exploring the healing power of plants, Yiyun Li shares what gardening offered after a son’s death.
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
Do you have a teeny garden? If so, you might find some small space inspiration in Tiny.Garden.Growing, an account showing practical tips and tricks for urban gardening.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 Gnome way! Devon garden centre reveals the world’s largest collection
📍 The 'secret' Surrey garden that feels like something out of a fairytale
📍 Spending some time in Somerset? Here’s 10 gardens to explore
📍 The Cambridge garden world famous for its rare plants where kids can visit for free
💬 Tell us your tips
We’re looking for the little tips, tricks, and timesavers you use in your garden.
Perhaps you’ve found a new use for something old. Perhaps you accidently stumbled on something that’s saved you HOURS on a gardening task. Whatever it is that you now can’t live without in your garden, we’d love to hear about it. Drop us a comment. 👇
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Happy gardening! Jess x
Please no tips from US for newsletter in the U.K. so confusing!! Different climates altogether.
Here’s a tip that might be useful regardless of location. Plastic packaging has a multitude of uses in the garden, this year I have been cutting old water bottle into strips to use as plant labels. A Sharpie pen gives a weatherproof solution.
I know that the world would be much better without single use plastics but as there is as yet no alternative for some things this, at least, extends the usefulness of spent packaging.