The Garden Minute ⏰: Monday 26 February 2024
☀️Good morning Gardeners. Here is today's gardening round up :)
Contemporary cottage garden style – the power of the 70/30 rule.
A contemporary cottage garden fuses traditional cottage style with ‘naturalistic planting’, according to garden designer, Tim Pilgrim.
‘It uses common plants – both edible and ornamental – as in traditional cottage garden planting, but planted in larger drifts. And there’s more thought to colour palette and repetition,’ he says. The Middle Sized Garden.
No Dig Gardening Guide for Beginners: Charles Dowding & Garden Ninja. If I said you could grow vegetables easily without having the backbreaking task of digging over your beds each year, would you believe me? You may have heard of the 'No dig' gardening method and think its too good to be true. I caught up with Charles Dowding on one of his 'No dig' masterclasses to find out why it provides bumper crops, is better for the environment and will save you from backache!
Spring flowers: 10 of the best places in the UK to see them bloom. Witch hazel and snowdrops, hellebores and daffodils – with the country set to burst into bloom, we find the best of the season’s first offerings. The Guardian.
GARDEN DESIGNER GEORGE CULLIS'S GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST OF A NORTH-FACING GARDEN. Enclosed is an understatement, when your garden is surrounded by the towering walls of neighbouring properties to the left, right and rear.
In London, though, this situation is very common and was exactly what award-winning garden designer George Cullis faced when designing this space for his client, the owner of a Chelsea townhouse back in 2019.
Demand for houseplants has continued to soar since lockdown, says UK supermarket. Tesco said one of its suppliers, which had mainly dealt in cut flowers such as lilies, peonies and agapanthus, had switched its indoor production facilities solely to producing house plants to help meet demand.
The RHS 2024 favourite Partner Garden voting opens in April. Hexam Courant.
10 best gardening gloves for sprucing up your green spaces. Often brushed off as something done idly or reserved for people to enjoy in retirement, those who enjoy gardening know it’s dirty, sweaty, and a real workout. While the Chelsea Flower Show, Kew Gardens and the Eden Project present polished landscapes, the reality is that getting to that point requires plenty of mud, thorns and back-breaking work.
This all takes its toll on your hands. That's where the best gardening gloves come in, helping to protect your mitts from the elements. Good Housekeeping.
How one man resurrected a rare plant after 20 years of extinction
Andrew Shaw has a passion for rare British native plants, even bringing plants back from the dead.
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Set off tulips to perfection with these beautiful companion plants.
Tulips enjoy their moment in the spotlight in late spring. Arrange the perfect companion for them, perhaps one that contrasts in form or colour, and they can really soar. This supporting cast of 10 plants to team with tulips will take displays of these brilliant spring bulbs to new heights. The English Garden.
Starting Again For Summer.
Ruth from Amateur Gardening gets to work with seeds and tubers.
Alan Titchmarsh: Wordsworth was dead wrong about lonely clouds — but he was on to something with daffodils. The Lakeland poet William Wordsworth didn’t always get it right. ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud,’ he wrote. As any resident of Cumberland and Westmorland knows only too well, no cloud in the Lake District is ever lonely. Cumbrian clouds come in battalions, loaded with the rainfall that fills Windermere and Derwentwater. Where the poet was spot on is in his description of the joy engendered by those daffodils that were ‘fluttering and dancing in the breeze’.
Look to the exotics for variety.
Of Larkspur and Szechuan pepper… Pat Duke asks what should you plant this season?
5 easy ways to rewild your garden. Country Living.
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