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Visit our guest blogs for Margaret Finch’s Gardening Through the Seasons. Margaret Finch lives in a beautiful house with an amazing walled garden. Her garden has heritage apple trees, a long history and she designs her garden to have colour throughout the seasons.
With the weather being very frosty and misty my Gardening thoughts are of ordering seeds in the warm.There’s nothing better than making yourself a hot drink and flicking through some of the numerous seed catalogues that arrive in the post.
Gardening Through The Season with Margaret Finch Dear ReadersFirstly I would like to wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year with lots of Garden enjoyment and fun for 2022.What a difference in one week Thursday here at Farley Hill -4 degrees there was a very impressive frost so picturesque it was beautiful particularly …
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Gardening through the Seasons with Margaret Finch is a blog with useful tips and hints for gardening lovers.
Only last week we were enjoying the most splendid autumn colours that in Britain we have seen in a few years The hot sunny weather helps the trees to store huge levels of sugar which produce these amazing bright glowing colours to lift our spirits in to the winter months
Just when the Summer has given us its full strength of growth and colour to totally surprise us Gardeners the Nerine suddenly appears as by magic. Usually flowering leafless on stems 45cm -50 cm tall on long slender stems with a stunning waxy display of trumpet like flowers having as many as 8/10 per stem.
The Garden centres now have a good selection of seed potatoes it’s a good time to buy while they are in good condition and get them to start chitting in preparation for planting in March
It’s so great to feel the warmth of the Spring sunshine and hear the birds singing. This sunshine has been an absolute joy for the chorus of Crocus this year as they emerge through the ground and open wide a host of bees 🐝 find their inviting
I know it looks tempting to cut the Lawn here it’s very wet and soggy and I think we would make more mess and damage than necessary.” We” as royal we! Tony, not me,
Gardening Through The Seasons With Margaret Finch Patio PeachesThese like to be trained up a wall or fence. Tie in the laterials and fan out as much as possible Protect when flowering from frost cover with fleece Top up container with New compost every year. Feed with a multi purpose liquid feed to help growth. https://westberksvillagers.com/crocuses-with-margaret-finch/
Exciting times ahead you will be extremely well rewarded.Definitely start planning now.
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