The Garden Minute ⏰: Monday 12 February 2024
☀️Good morning Gardeners. Here is today's gardening round up :)
Charles Quest-Ritson: no chain, no gain — how using a chainsaw will improve your garden. Gardeners can be reluctant to take a blade to a healthy tree, but sometimes a severe pruning will leave both plant and garden in better health. Country Life.
Ultimate lawn laying guide: How to Lay Turf. Welcome to the ultimate guide on how to lay turf, your go-to resource for transforming your garden space into a lush, green paradise. Whether you're starting from scratch or rejuvenating an existing lawn, the process of laying turf is easy when you follow this guide which will result in a vibrant and healthy carpet of grass. Garden Ninja.
Locals outraged as pretty UK seaside town's 100-year-old floral clock is destroyed. Daily Express.
Garden Offer: Buy 2 get one FREE at ‘J Parkers’ on their Scadoxus multiflorus (Fireball Lily) bulbs.
The gardening year slowly gets to its feet. Elegant narcissi shoots are joined now by fat-fingered daffodil stems and tulips. The first new growth of our gardening year, outside our bedroom window. There is a delicacy about growing in pots that maybe suits Henri more than me. More architectural discipline, too. Different sizes and textures of planting dotted through the roof terrace at the top of the house. The Guardian.
Industrial Horticulture is at a crossroads – new report urges expansion not decline.
Grow Year Round No Dig Gardening Courses
“Grow Year Round” Sustainable Organic Gardening Courses at Stephanie Hafferty’s half-acre homestead in Wales.
The Doncaster florist going viral for her unusual funeral wreaths. BBC.
10 companion planting ideas for a vegetable garden. Fend off unwanted pests and diseases, and encourage great food crops and flowers. House Beautiful.
In local news:
Pembrokeshire theatre to bring famous Monet garden painting to life.
Over Allotment Site tenants celebrate community garden's centenary.
Sustainable Amersham want children to get active with gardening.
University of Greenwich invites public to Avery Hill Edible Garden.
Soul Farm organic veg project offers shares in bid to expand. A not-for-profit small scale farm near Falmouth that grows seasonal veg wants to expand by becoming community owned. BBC.
27 poisonous plants that are harmful for cats and dogs. Swindon Advertiser.
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