The Garden Minute ⏰: Wednesday 18 October 2023
☀️Good morning Gardeners. Here’s your Wednesday Garden News Minute.
🍎Plant fruit trees this autumn! New partnership urges communities to dig in. Communities are being encouraged to plant fruit trees and to revitalise community orchards by the Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature partnership. It is estimated that around 90% of traditional orchards have been lost since the 1950s through neglect, development, and conversion to more intensive modern orchards. The Wildlife Trusts.
🪻How to plant hyacinth bulbs the right way for bright, healthy and beautiful blooms come spring. Seeing hyacinth blooms shoot forth in your flower beds and sensing their heady fragrance signal the start of spring. But in order for them to do that, some work has to be put in the autumn before - which is planting them. Ideal Home.
J Parkers have a great range of Hyacinth here.
🫧5 quick tips to clean your patio and decking. When used correctly, pressure washers can save you plenty of time and help you get rid of stubborn built-up grime and dirt from various surfaces. Which?
🥕'Most sought-after' allotments in the UK - where people wait years for plot. Bristol has the 'most sought-after' allotments in the UK - where people wait years for their own plot. A series of FOIs by Greenpeace UK recently revealed Bristol had the longest allotment waiting list, with 7,630. Bristol Live.
🪑UK Gardeners Advised To Move Furniture Now For 1 Grim Reason. Ah, autumn ― now that the weather has begun to take a turn for the chilly, it’s hard to ignore the fact that barren winter is coming. You know who hasn’t taken the “winding down” memo, though? Rats. Huffington Post.
🏡How to transform your small garden. It can sometimes feel that not much can be done with a small garden, let alone on a budget, but with the right advice this can all change. House Beautiful.
🍂19 best leaf blowers to make autumnal garden duties a breeze. When it comes to naming the most fun garden appliance, the outright winner has to be the leaf blower. The Independent.
In other news:
🐦Living wildly – the rewilding movement flourishing in the UK. All over the country, rewilding projects are allowing nature to reclaim spaces, and helping the land to recover. Greenpeace.
🌎How community gardening could ease your climate concerns. Every day, we are bombarded with messages about a world in crisis. Alongside the ongoing reminders of wars, economic recessions and social unrest is news about natural disasters and extreme weather – be that prolonged droughts, freak heatwaves and wildfires or devastating floods and landslides. The Unconventional Gardener.
🚰Why are hydroponic systems growing in popularity in gardening circles? Nowadays, rapid advancements in science and technology as well as humanity’s pursuit of environmental sustainability are driving innovation in various fields. In the world of horticulture, hydroponic systems, with their unique advantages, are becoming increasingly popular, capturing the attention of numerous gardening enthusiasts and professionals. Real Men Sow.
🍄Scientists race against time to discover plant and fungi species before they go extinct. 3 in 4 undiscovered plant species and 45 per cent of known flowering plants are already threatened with extinction, new research by Kew finds. Geographical.
🪴Easiest indoor plants to grow from Spider Plants to Aloe Vera. Bringing houseplants into your home is a great way to inject life into your indoor space - that is until you kill them. South Wales Argus.
🌿Arundel based plant nursery wins award. Greenwood is one of the UK’s largest growers for the new build property, commercial, and infrastructure sectors. Spanning over 100 acres across the UK and employing over 120 team members, the company produces six million plants a year across its six nurseries. Yahoo News.
🍓Hull set to allow ‘right to grow’ on unused council land in UK first. City councillors pass motion to let community groups, charities and neighbours cultivate fruit and veg. The Guardian.
🌿WEED OUT My trick kills weeds in the garden without back-breaking digging – do it in the fall, you’ll be weed-free in spring. The Sun.
🦋Golf course becomes haven for butterflies in South Downs National Park. Thirty-four species were found living in the rough, including rare species such as the Adonis blue, brown hairstreak and grizzled skipper. Shropshire Star.
🧠Eden Project Communities and Hastings Botanic Garden Project join forces for event celebrating wellbeing. Yahoo News.
📈 The most-clicked/tapped links from the last newsletter:
Garden plants you should prune in October to ensure flowers grow next year.
How to stop weeds growing in block paving - 5 quick and easy ways to keep your driveway weed-free.
Monty Don urges gardeners to follow lawn-mowing trick this autumn to make 'black gold'.
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