The Garden in January 2026
A very happy new year to you all. I hope 2026 brings you and yours health, happiness and good gardening weather!
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A very happy new year to you all. I hope 2026 brings you and yours health, happiness and good gardening weather!
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As we enter the first month of the winter, as I wrote last month, I am trying very hard to concentrate on the best things that the month has to...
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I always seem to struggle to be optimistic about November with its shortening days, lack of plant growth and many shades of grey! I suppose that it is also the...
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Well, here we are in the ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ and what a season it is! John Keats in his ‘Ode to Autumn’ really did the season justice...
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After, let’s just say, an ‘interesting’ summer I am, as always, very pleased to see the arrival of September and I’m hoping for a more ‘normal’ month with a mixture...
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Well, here we are already in the last month of the summer which I know some gardeners feel is a difficult month with often parched and brown lawns, prolific weed...
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What a perfect way to sum up both June and July? My thanks to the one and only Ethel Merman for putting these words into my head...
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I think this month’s title just sums up the garden in June perfectly and my thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein for giving me the line from one of their songs...
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At first thought this phrase is often associated with the charming novel by H. E. Bates but as with many of our best-known sayings it is actually from William Shakespeare...
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‘Oh, to be in Wales now that April’s here’ with apologies to Robert Browning. Quite right too, where else would you want to be at this time of year?
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At last, the gardening year can really begin as the days lengthen, the weather improves and we, as well as the soil, begin to warm!
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Although the shortest month of the year, February does have some good features and fantastic gardening jobs if we are prepared to look for them...
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Well, here we are again at the beginning of yet another gardening year and even though there is not a great deal to be done in the garden so early...
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