The Garden Minute ⏰: Monday 8 January 2024
☀️Good morning Gardeners. Here is today's gardening round up :)
Alan Titchmarsh: Change your plants, buy a greenhouse, erect a shed — do something to shake up your garden this winter. Spring will be here before you know it, so why not shake up your garden before the bloom? Alan Titchmarsh offers some suggestions on how to do just that. Country Life.
Gardeners' roses grow back 'quicker and better' thanks to one 'drastic' winter tip. You'd think there isn't much to do in the garden in the depths of winter, but hobbyists say there's one thing to do now to make roses flourish. Daily Record.
Plants to treat your garden to in January for a gorgeous scent boost in winter. A fragrant winter garden could help lift your spirits, no matter how frosty the mornings may be. Daily Mirror.
Kew plans new carbon garden and orangery extension. The new garden will replace the secluded garden which Kew says is unsafe due to its dilapidated features. BBC.
How to rescue your garden after heavy winds and rain. There are sensible measures you can take to protect and rescue your garden from storm damage, says Guy Barter, chief horticulturist at the Royal Horticultural Society. Wales Online.
Holiday goals: a romantic and sensuous Greek garden you can stay in. For this magical retreat in Greece, garden designer Tania Compton crafted sweeping panoramic vistas with Mediterranean-style planting to create a romantic and sensuous haven. Gardens Illustrated.
In local news:
Maidenhead flooding: Gardens become lakes amid worries homes will be uninsurable.
Kilmersdon Gardeners welcome a talk on James Allen, The Snowdrop King.
Thrive's Winter Wellbeing Calendar gives the daily boost we all need in January. Thrive, the gardening for health charity, have launched their Winter wellbeing calendar of activities, designed to help people use gardening and nature to support their wellbeing this season. Country Living.
Monty Don's tip will improve the health of your compost – using cardboard and paper leftover from the holidays. The aftermath of the festive holidays is usually filled with a lot of waste, mostly caused by paper and cardboard from delivery parcels and presents. While most of us would probably add these to the recycling pile without a second thought, Monty Don just shared a gardening tip to put leftover paper and cardboard in your garden compost instead. Ideal Home.
How to support climbing plants. What a pleasure it is to go into a much-loved garden and see wisteria or an apricot under glass, beautifully trained on a wall. All that skill at play. But that skill can’t be deployed without decent supports in the wall. So how do you make a firm frame for your climbers? The Times. Subscription Required.
UK Garden Centres Turn to RFID Tags to Combat Rising Theft. BNN.
'Critically endangered' pine tree once thought to be extinct planted at Inverness Botanic Gardens to mark 30th anniversary. The Inverness Courier.
How do you get your child interested in birdwatching? Children are being encouraged to watch and count birds in their school grounds during Big Schools’ Birdwatch (from Jan 8 to Feb 19), sending the results to the RSPB to gain a better overall picture of how birds are faring across the UK. Great British Life.
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