The Garden Minute: Plants to Prune, Pantera Playlists and a Podcast

☀️ Good morning Gardeners. Need a little Monday Motivation? Here's a round up of gardenspiration to set you up for the week ahead.

Sep 30, 2024

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

♻️ Zero waste gardening – 7 innovative ideas to make your garden greener

🌱 Saving seeds from your garden is more satisfying than buying them in packets. Here’s how to do it

🌼 The plants you should never prune in October

📅 Gardening expert says there's one plant 'everyone' should be growing in their garden next month

💐 Here are the spring flowering bulbs you should be planting in your garden now

🎶 Whistle while you work. According to a survey, Hozier and Pantera are dominating gardening playlists!

🌿 The best ornamental grasses for gardens: the ones to pick and how to grow them

Garden Offer: 3 x Hosta ‘Orange Marmalade’ in 9cm pots for £10.99 at Plant Drops

☕ The Long Read

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

A long listen, rather than a read …

Follow head gardeners Saul Walker and Lucy Chamberlain as they reveal exactly what it's like to be professional horticulturists leading busy teams on large, private estates.

Lucy and Saul have a decade of Head Gardening experience and it soon became clear to them both that life as a Head Gardener can be incredibly diverse, occasionally challenging, and hugely rewarding and so they regularly discuss horticultural topics close to their hearts and give you an insight into their lives as gardeners.

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📱 Ones to watch

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

Looking for a little inspiration for the little ones? Mud & Bloom is an account sharing Forest School updates, garden projects for kids and easy to achieve crafts to keep little green fingers busy, whatever the season.