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For gardeners who want information and advice on choosing and growing plants, patios, decks, sheds etc. Without wanting to become a horticulturalist or take a garden design course to get there.

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Spring - Forget-me-not after the spring rain. A medieval knight was walking with his lady alongside a river bank when he slipped and fell in, as he disappeared beneath the water weighed down by his armour, he grabbed some riverbank flowers and holding them out to her cried "forget me not", hence the name.

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Quotes

Oak before Ash and we're in for a splash, Ash before Oak and we're in for a soak.
Traditional - which leaves emerge first and the coming summers weather.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience.

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied.  They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
Vita Sackville-West, 1892 – 1962

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
Author unknown

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
John Evelyn, 1666

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
Russell Page, The Education of a Gardener, 1962

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
Barbara Damrosch

A garden always gives back more than it receives.
Mara Beamish

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Charles Dudley Warner

Gardening is a humbling experience.
Martha Stewart

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.
Voltaire, Candide

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.
Sadi

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Jobs / Tips

    As the flowers of spring flowering shrubs fade, they can be pruned back to get a good display next year. Forsythia, Ribes (flowering currants),  Kerria japonica, Chaenomeles (Japanese quince) and early flowering Spirea should all be pruned regularly to keep them vigorous and flowering well.

If you have a neglected plant, then they can withstand being cut pretty much right down to the ground, though I prefer to carry out drastic renovation over at least two years.

    Lower the lawn mower height to the normal setting now. Initial mowings in early spring should be slightly higher than normal, after a couple the blades can be lowered. Remember that a little and often is the best way to get a really good lawn.

    Give your lawns a feed of fertiliser now. Buy a proprietary lawn feed and follow the instructions carefully, I can guarantee that in the next few weeks I'll get a few emails from people who over-feed their lawns and want me to tell them how to deal with the dead patches. These emails usually ask if I think it's a good idea to add some other chemical they've heard about or found in the shed (it isn't).

    Weed, weed and thrice weed! They're coming up thick and vigorously now, so start while they're relatively small and you'll stop them from seeding and have a chance of staying on top of the situation.

    Continue to protect young shoots from slugs, scatter pellets / slug pubs or whatever particularly around clematis and herbaceous plants (they love Delphiniums).

    Plant up containers and hanging baskets with tender summer bedding plants towards the end of the month, but don't put them out until all risk of frost has passed.

    Trim quick growing hedges. They're starting to sprout well now and it helps keep them in shape before they get too unruly. Most hedge types can be left until early to mid summer, but the faster growing varieties need 3 trims a year.

    Watch out for early signs of aphids.

    Go out walking one morning in May, by the time you get back you're almost guaranteed to be inspired to write a folk song, place left forefinger in left ear for additional inspiration.

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