April in the Garden
Welcome to the April edition of Fiveways Gardens
If you haven't already, why not make your first visit to the garden centres and nurseries to start stocking new beds or containers, or replace tired old plants. All the new furniture and pots will be coming out right now in time for the official launch of the gardening season.
March in the Garden
Welcome to the March edition of Fiveways Gardens
It's time to spruce up the garden in time for the major burst of growth that's coming over the next few months. Somehow, the fresh new leaves of spring never look great set amongst the brown decaying mush of the previous years growth...
February in the Garden
Welcome to the February edition of Fiveways Gardens.
So far it seems to have been a pretty mild, wet winter. I wonder how those drought tolerant, Mediterranean plants we were all heartily encouraged to grow in 2006 are bearing up?
January in the Garden
Welcome to the January edition of Fiveways Gardens.
Happy New Year to you all and here's to 2008 giving us a hot, sunny summer with lots of lovely rain at night time!
In the meantime, there's a lot to get on with in the garden, in particular maintenance and planning for when it gets busy. If, like me, you spent too many irritated moments hunting for twine, bulb planter, plant labels etc through the year...
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December in the Garden
Welcome to the December edition of Fiveways Gardens.
The heavy frosts of those few days in mid November made me think about getting some fleece for those tender plants that won't like a period of extended cold. I recently came across some fleece jackets – sounds cosy...
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November in the Garden
Over the past few weeks, there's a question that has cropped up half a dozen or so times. “Is this a good time of year to do the garden?” Locally to us, the answer is a resounding “yes”. So long as heavy frosts for days at a time aren't forecast...
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October in the Garden
This is a good time of year to take a long, hard look at your garden and ponder on what's worked well and what hasn't. A keen gardener friend of mine recently observed that us gardeners are all too quick to point out our failings and I think she's right. So, for the record...
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September in the Garden
As it’s been too wet and horrible to do
much gardening, I’ve been focussing my mind on something very dear to
my heart as a gardener. I feel passionately about the importance of
saving our gardens (allotments too) and I'm amazed how little awareness
of this issue exists, so am spreading the word...
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August in the Garden
I’m not going to mention the weather this time… let’s just talk about gardening.
As well
as continuing to dead-head and stake perennials, you can get stuck in
to some hearty pruning. If you haven’t already tackled your spring and
early summer flowering shrubs like flowering current, Forsythia,
Philadelphus, Spirea and Weigela
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July in the Garden
Prime tasks in July are deadheading,
watering and perhaps a bit of
overdue staking. In spite of the walls, fences and hedges
around here,
the wind always seems to whip up periodic mischief and
damage. July’s
a bit of a tidying and sorting month...
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June in the Garden
A cool rainy May followed a hot sunny
April. Whilst this gives me hope that we won’t have a hosepipe ban this
year it’s also meant that lots of perennials, shrubs and trees have
flowered...
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