The June Gap
June is the month of transition between spring and summer and brings with it the June gap. A month of long days, balmy nights and hopefully plenty of glorious …
Wildlife gardening
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Winter Help For Bees
Bees are in trouble and the fact is that we need them just as much as they need us. Our countryside used to provide everything needed to sustain a …
Helping your Garden Wildlife this Summer
If you enjoy your garden wildlife then here’s some tips to help and encourage them this
Sunflower Giraffe – A brand new giant!
To celebrate 2015 being the Year of the Sunflower Suttons is introducing 14 new varieties so there’s more to choose from than ever! Sunflowers are easy to …
Lupins – Aged to Perfection
Lupins, that cottage garden favourite, will have been in flower for a few weeks now and the flower spikes will be beginning to fade. Don’t just sit there – …
Combatting Slugs – ‘au naturel’
The scourge of our flower beds and veg plots, the humble slug is quite a nuisance, devouring your prized plants overnight and leaving silvery trails across the …
The Ultimate Slug killer
So here I was happily planting out some tomatoes in the garden when my daughter asks innocently “ What’s that?” A hedgehog , I reply, “What is it …
There’s something lurking in the wood store . . .
Opening up the wood store for some logs we discovered that we had a squatter. This rather large and handsome slow worm has taken up residence just under the …
Queen of Months
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale The blossom is already in full swing …
Reasons to be Cheerful . . .
The first broad beans are poking their noses through at the moment and there is lots of new life showing in the form of buds – the apple tree, cherry tree …