⏰ The Garden Minute: Pollen levels,'leggy lavender'and lethal plants
☀️ 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.
🌹 How to prune roses so they keep growing beautifully
🐦 Keep pesky pigeons out of your garden with Monty Don’s trick
🤧 If rising pollen levels are triggering your hayfever, here’s some helpful tips
🪑 Make more of your garden furniture with these planting tips
🪻 Want to avoid ‘leggy lavender’? Don’t leave it too late to prune
✂️ Gardeners urged not to throw away their grass cuttings
📱 How a plant identification app helped me find happiness and satisfaction
💬 Your tips & tricks
The little tips, tricks, and timesavers you use in your garden.
Perhaps you’ve found a new use for something old. Perhaps you accidently stumbled on something that’s saved you HOURS on a gardening task. Whatever it is that you now can’t live without in your garden, we’d love to hear about it. Drop us a comment.
A plant offer from Plant Drops today - 3 x Heuchera ‘Glitter’ in 9cm pots for £10.99
☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
The complex climate truth about home-grown tomatoes
“You can tell these allotments have been here, on the Isle of Dogs in London, for a long time. Some of the sheds are former air raid shelters. "There's a lot of that still here from the war," says Paula Owen, a relatively recent arrival who has maintained her own plot for the last 10 years. "A lot of people make do and mend."
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
Sundays in the garden isn’t just a nice time, well spent. It’s the name of Sarah’s YouTube Channel. Here you’ll find tips, tricks, projects and advice from her English cottage garden.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 Best accessible gardens in the UK, according to Mark Lane
📍 Eight of the most dangerous plants you can find in Alnwick Poison Garden
📍 Open Garden attractions in Northumberland
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Happy gardening! Jess x