The Garden Minute: Structural Plants, Sandwiches & Stubborn Tomatoes
☀️ 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.
📅 6 of the biggest gardening trends of 2024 so far
🔎 Where were London's most famous 'lost' gardens?
🍅 Gardening experts share the secrets to ripening stubborn green tomatoes
👨🌾 Gardener warns UK homeowners to remove three common plants to protect garden
🌴 7 architectural plants that will make your garden look less bare during Winter
☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
What do you take to the allotment with you? When you take a well-earned lunch break form putting your back into the garden, what’s a simple grab and go option you tuck into to put some fuel back in the tank?
If the answer for you is a good butty, you might enjoy this podcast. It certainly gave me some food for though this week!
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
In the Familiar Faces series on YouTube, Country Living explores the gardens of actors, authors and musicians to find out how they live the life and bring slow, simple, sustainable values into their areas of expertise and everyday routines.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 Stourhead in autumn 'is a real life painting'
📍 Woman's rare discovery in her back garden makes her the 'luckiest person in UK'
📍 Bovey Castle Hotel launches garden tours
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Happy gardening! Jess x