The Garden Minute: Pink Flowers, Pier Gardens & Pollenators

☀️ Good morning Gardeners. Here's a round up of gardenspiration to get you through to the end of the week.

Jess

Apr 09, 2025

A round-up of tips, tricks and news snippets on all things garden-related.

☀️ How to get your garden ready for summer: 13 things you can do right now, according to the experts

🐝 Country diary: There’s a new star in the garden – the tree bumblebee

🧼 Budget-friendly 59p hack that will leave your garden furniture gleaming

🇯🇵 The 5 best plants for a Japanese garden – key trees and flowers to help nail the style

🌸 13 of the Prettiest Pink Flowers to Add to Your Garden This Spring

Garden Offer: Spend over £200 on fruit cages at Agriframes and receive £50 of fruit plants for FREE!

Plant Offer: New mystery plant boxes online at the Secret Gardening Club today

☕ The Long Read (or listen … or watch)

Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break

Do Trees Talk to Each Other?

A controversial German forester says yes, and his ideas are shaking up the scientific world

I’m walking in the Eifel Mountains in western Germany, through cathedral-like groves of oak and beech, and there’s a strange unmoored feeling of entering a fairy tale. The trees have become vibrantly alive and charged with wonder. They’re communicating with one another, for starters. They’re involved in tremendous struggles and death-defying dramas. To reach enormousness, they depend on a complicated web of relationships, alliances and kinship networks.

Read on

📱 Ones to watch

Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week

Gintare Sinkeviciute, known on Instagram as Amber's Allotment, is a beacon of inspiration for allotment gardeners.

Through her visually beautiful posts and personal highlights, West Yorkshire-based Gintare takes her followers on an educational journey, offering valuable insights into creating flourishing gardens.