The Garden Minute: Nostalgia, NHS Outdoor Spaces & No Dig Gardening
☀️ 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.
👩🌾 ‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients
🌱 5 practical items your garden needs for its spring spruce up
🕳️ How to do no-dig gardening — experts say this easy and laid-back trend has just one rule
💚 This charming, nostalgic gardening trend evokes warm memories and simpler times
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☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
Inspired by the work of florists, I fell down a little rabbithole and stumbled upon this fascinating article about floristry in 1930’s Britain.
Researcher Felicity Hall looks at the wider context of Constance Spry’s career in floristry in 1930s Britain
Dive in for a blooming good history lesson
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
With Mother’s day on the horizon, the floristry industry is gearing up for one of the busiest dates in it’s diary.
In celebration, we spotted this lovely list of UK florists worth a follow. Take a look for bunches of inspiration for displaying beautiful blooms.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 7 of the best garden centres in County Durham with cafes to visit in spring
📍 Kent exotic garden dreamt up during nine-month captivity
📍 See inside the fantastic new garden centre which opened its doors last week
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Happy gardening! Jess x