Even I have to admit that November can be a damp and rather dreary month but, if you look for them, there are always some garden highlights to be found.
Posted on November 02, 2022
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October already? What happened to the rest of the year, I hear you saying! As we enter the middle part of autumn the hot, dry summer seems like a distant memory after the rains at the beginning of September and we can start to look forward to all the delights that autumn has to offer.
Posted on September 28, 2022
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September gardens are full of flower colour and a great month for planting with its warm soils and hopefully increasing amounts of rainfall.
Posted on September 01, 2022
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Whatever your preferences for weather I hope that you and your garden have managed through the heat and that you are looking forward to August.
Posted on August 01, 2022
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By July the garden is a very different place with all of its high summer colour, scents and abundance of growth. All the hard work of the earlier months has paid off and resulted in full and luxuriant beds and borders.
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Glorious June heralds the arrival of summer with all its varied delights. There is still plenty to keep the gardener occupied such as dead heading, cutting back, watering and mowing but it is also a time to enjoy all that the garden has to offer.
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May is a truly wonderful month in any garden with the freshness of spring as well as the promise of summer. With it comes warmer temperatures which signal the time to start getting ready for the summer to come.
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April is a wonderful month for any garden. Each day seems to bring more life, colour and interest from leaves and flowers, insects and pond life, to the birds preparing to rear their first broods of the year or arriving back from their winter homes.
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As the first month of spring it is full of hope and anticipation of the new growing season to come. However, gardeners need to be aware that it can also be a tricky month as far as the weather is concerned!
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What can I say that’s good about February, a month which sees the end of winter but one that is often full of weather surprises many of which are not entirely welcomed by gardeners who are desperate for spring to arrive.
Posted on February 04, 2022
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Well here we are at the start of another gardening year hopefully full of optimism for what lies ahead in the garden if still very apprehensive about the continuing pandemic in the world at large.
Posted on January 04, 2022
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December is not considered to be a great month by many gardeners with its short days, cold and often unpredictable weather and plenty of other things to occupy the mind and time!
Posted on December 17, 2021
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