This Month in Your Garden – January
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays...
In Your Garden
This Month in Your Garden – December
‘Chill December brings the sleet, blazing fire, and Christmas treat.’ -Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), ‘The Garden...
This Month in Your Garden – November
‘Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are whirling fast’. – Sara Coleridge. Another...
This Month in Your Garden – October
‘Everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.’ Elizabeth Lawrence Spectacular...
This Month in Your Garden – July
“The hum of the bees is the voice of the garden.” Elizabeth Lawrence Gardens with...
This Month in Your Garden – June
‘I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was...
This Month in Your Garden – May
‘Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment’. – Ellis Peters All the careful...
This Month in Your Garden – April
‘Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers.’ – Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of...
This Month in Your Garden – February
‘The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out...
This Month in Your Garden – January
‘New Year’s day is everyman’s birthday.’ Charles Lamb January is named after the Etruscan word...
This Month in Your Garden – December
‘In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...
This Month In Your Garden – November
“Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are whirling fast.” – Sara Coleridge The...
This Month In Your Garden – October
Dry your barley in October or you’ll always be sober. English folk rhyme If you...
Cuttings
deadheading
drought
Evergreen
fuschias
Hanging Baskets
In Your Garden
lawn
potatoes
rain
seed
September
Shrubs
Sowing
This Month In Your Garden – September
“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures…”– Henry David Thoreau...
annuals
August
borders
Hanging Baskets
heat wave
Herbaceous Plants
In Your Garden
pruning
rain
Seeds
soil
Sunflowers
sweetcorn
Wisteria
This Month in Your Garden – August
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare We British complain. It’s...
This Month in Your Garden – July
‘I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.’ – Claude Monet The cultivation of...
anemones
begonias
Campanula
Dahlias
Hanging Baskets
In Your Garden
June
Pansies
polyanthus
Primulas
Roses
weed seedlings
This Month in Your Garden – June
It was June and the world smelled of roses – Maud Hart Lovelace It’s fair...
delphiniums
forking
frosts
fuschias
Greenfly
In Your Garden
May
petunias
poppy
Roses
salvias
summer bedding
Weeds
This Month in Your Garden – May
In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside...
This Month in Your Garden – April
No life is without difficulties. No garden is without weeds.C.L. Fornari It seems like it’s...
Alyssum
Aubretia
Bellis
biennials
border plants
Daffodils
Dahlias
Greenhouse
herbaceous
herbs
In Your Garden
Leaves
May
perennials
Roses
Shrubs
water butt
This Month in Your Garden – May
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in...