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The garden is getting confused!

A couple of strange things to report from the garden, which I imagine have been replicated around the country. First, I noticed a few penstemon came back into flower, having burned brightly but briefly earlier in the year – I think they gave up in around August, soon after the searing heatwave of a few weeks earlier. Presumably, with the current mild weather, they’ve decided it’s safe to show their faces again! At the same time, my spring-flowering clematis is in bud! Is this because it too went into a state of self-imposed dormancy in the summer and, now the sun is shining and the days are basically as long as they are in spring, it has got itself confused? Either way, both will provide the late-season pollinators with an end-of-October…

The garden is getting confused!

BIRMINGHAM THINKS BIG

Birmingham Botanical Gardens has been awarded more than £500,000 of National Lottery money to plan the redevelopment of its four glasshouses, with the potential to secure a further £4.4 million for the five-year project. Visitors to the gardens will also benefit in other ways. The Grade II-listed educational charity, based in Edgbaston, is developing plans for a £13 million ‘Growing our Green Heritage’ project. As well as restoring the historic glasshouse estate, the project aims to extend visitor and community resources. Set within a Conservation Area, the 15-acre oasis receives no public subsidy and is one of only two remaining independent botanic gardens in the country. Just a mile from the city centre, it’s home to more than 7,000 formally documented plants, the largest and most diverse botanic collection in central England.…

BIRMINGHAM THINKS BIG

Tiptoe through eye-catching new tulips!

‘Eyelash’ Flowering from late April, this two-tone variety will turn heads. Fringed white petals with insides of purple-pink create a distinctive effect whether grown in the border, pots or for cut flowers. H: 50cm, S: 10cm. Price: £5.10/10 bulbs. From: www.peternyssen.com; tel: 0161 747 4000. ‘Moon Blush’ This chameleon variety changes colour as the blooms age. Starting yellow with salmon highlights to petal edges, it becomes orange with pink tones. Flowers from late April. Good cut flower. H: 40cm, S: 10cm. Price: £4/10 bulbs. From: www.peternyssen.com; tel: 0161 747 4000. ‘Annie Smulders’ Lots of bang for your buck with this variety, as blossoms open to reveal double petals in a vibrant shade of pink supported on strong, compact stems. H: 30cm, S: 10cm. Price: £8.50/10 bulbs. From: www.jacquesamandintl.com; tel: 020 8420 7110. TRIED AND TESTED DISTINCTIVE BLOOMER ‘Red Riding Hood’ One…

Tiptoe through eye-catching new tulips!

Cloak the ground with winter colour

Heathers come into their own in winter, providing welcome colour through massed wands of tiny pink, white or red blooms or vibrantly-toned foliage. They’re hardy and durable and, coming from upland habitats, they're ideal for exposed, windy positions. While some heathers, such as Calluna vulgaris, flower in summer, Erica carnea and E. darleyensis perform with aplomb in winter. The main consideration when choosing these shrublets is that they need acid soil, although some, such as E. darleyensis, will tolerate more lime, surviving in pH-neutral soils. Or grow them in pots or hanging baskets of ericaceous compost. They’re ideal for popping into gaps in massed potted plantings or just growing on their own. There are plenty of varieties on sale now. Besides acid soil, they also need moist, but well-drained conditions and won’t stand…

Cloak the ground with winter colour

Spare a thought for our frogs

There are always dramatic changes at this time of year. No matter that it happens every year almost like clockwork, it’s always a surprise to us when the season falls away, our plants and wildlife quieten down and the days get dark. All of a sudden the leaves have gone, sunny days are crisp and sharp and the nights are cold. Something to do with the clocks going back, I think. The season of change happens in the animal world, too. I wonder if they get as caught off guard by it as we do? Our amphibians and reptiles face the challenge of winter much like birds and mammals, only for them it’s a battle against harsh winter cold more than most – they rely on external heat to warm them…

Spare a thought for our frogs

Your garden GEMS!

PAINT IT PERFECT! Can’t find a nice pot in the right size in the colour you really want? Why not buy an ordinary white pot the right size and a can of spray paint in the colour you want, then do it yourself like I have with my three tradescantias in the centre of each shelf. The pot colour now matches the leaves. Perfect! Lynsey Spendlove, Ewloe Simon says: A great top tip, thanks Lynsey. Also a great way to rejuvenate any old pots, too. WIN! A Gardman Beach Hut Nest Box £17.99 Lynsey wins a green Gardman Beach Hut Nest Box, which is a great way to help birds during the breeding season, courtesy of Westland. For more details about this product visit www.gardenhealth.com. PLEASE YOUR PEAS! A tip for planting peas: sow them in lengths of…

Your garden GEMS!

Passionate about plants

When you look around the garden at 10 Cross Street, you soon realise that owner Renata Hume has a passion for plants and gardening. “I’ve gardened since childhood, since my parents gave me a small plot in their garden. I remember spending more time outside than indoors,” she says. Over the years this love has blossomed. “I always aim to learn about a plant’s background, where it comes from and how to grow it well, including the conditions it needs.” Renata also loves this season of mellow fruitfulness, particularly this year after the intense heat and drought of the summer. “The changes here have been very distinctive, especially with the changes in leaf colour. The various forms and colours of the foliage constantly change as the days become shorter and cooler.…

Passionate about plants

CYCLAMEN FOR INDOORS AND OUT !

Plants that flower when little else does and that thrive in conditions where other plants would struggle are rightly prized by gardeners. Cyclamens are one of those plants, and while the dainty flowers made up of distinctive upswept petals might appear delicate, these are remarkably robust plants. Native to the Mediterranean, from southern France to Turkey and the Middle East, they’ve adapted to cope with the climate by flowering between autumn and late spring before becoming dormant during the hot, dry summer. Outdoor cyclamen Cyclamen hederifolium produces flowers in shades of pink that appear on stems about 8cm tall from late summer to mid-autumn; there’s also a white-flowering form. It has especially attractive lobed or heart-shaped, green foliage with intricate silver markings that resemble ivy, hence its common name – the ivy-leaved…

CYCLAMEN FOR INDOORS AND OUT !

Grow the BEST APPLES!

While the world is going crazy following the pandemic and now a cost of living crisis, it’s good to enjoy the simpler things in life – and there are few greater pleasures than growing and then harvesting your own food. Apple trees are so rewarding; you’ll get flowers as well as fruit and they provide food and shelter for all sorts or wildlife. Here we suggest some amazing varieties to try... ‘Egremont Russet’ This unusual-looking variety is great for juicing as it has a rich flavour with a balanced acidity. The crisp, firm flesh is excellent for tarts as it holds its shape when cooked. Don’t let the slightly rough skin put you off as ‘Egremont Russet’ has a delightfully sweet, almost nutty taste. Pick fruit in September and eat fresh until December. A…

Grow the BEST APPLES!

Love those AUTUMN GRASSES

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week! Autumn is a time of transformation. Almost imperceptibly, colours alter until one day you realise there has been a complete change – the garden has an entirely different look. It’s as though Mother Nature has taken a huge, soft paintbrush and gently swept it across the landscape. Although temperatures have started to fall, colour is mellow and warm. It’s precisely because the weather is colder and the year is moving on that this happens, and grasses best illustrate this metamorphosis. This is the season when grasses come into their own. We are aware now, not only of the colour that they bring to the autumn garden but their form, their movement, their music, too. They are the will-o’-the-wisps and wafty whisperers,…

Love those AUTUMN GRASSES

Summer is still hanging on! Derrick Turbitt Grows a huge variety of spring bulbs in the garden at his Northern Ireland home. Autumn is upon us but thanks to recent mild weather, some summer flowers are still putting on a good display. Late-sown marigolds are flowering well, as are bedding geraniums and lobelia. Some butterflies have also been around in the last few days. But sweet peas are over and the old stems and foliage have been added to the compost heap. The canes and supports from these cordon-grown plants have been removed and stored away for next year. I grew some early-sown sweet peas in the tunnel and managed to save more than 100 seeds from them. Dahlias are still providing colour. ‘Nepos’ is a low-growing waterlily dahlia that’s good as a cut…

TIDY AND CLEAN POTS AND TRAYS

Spring may seem a long way off, but when it arrives there’s much to do. That’s why it’s so important to get ready early. I’m not the best at storing and cleaning pots and trays after planting. They tend to just get piled in trays and put in the shed! But these really do need cleaning before they’re used in spring. Without being cleaned they can harbour diseases, which attack young seedlings, especially as they germinate in the warmth of the propagator. There will also be slugs and snails hiding among them and these need to be removed. Weed seeds are another big issue because they’ll remain dormant until you fill the trays with moist compost, and then they’ll germinate and be a real nuisance in spring, or could be confused with…

TIDY AND CLEAN POTS AND TRAYS

PLANT SOME WALLFLOWERS TO MIX WITH TULIP BULBS

Bedding plants for spring colour should be planted as soon as possible so they can get established and make roots before cold winter weather sets in. Violas and pansies are the most popular plants for spring because they can bloom sporadically through the cold months. But we should never plant the same plants in the same soil every year, so it’s wise to rest the soil of pansies or fungal soil diseases can be a problem. So instead, the traditional choice is always wallflowers, usually combined with tulips. They have a short season of bloom but can’t be beaten for colour and perfume. You can sometimes buy plants pulled from the growing field and wrapped, but it’s best to grow your own, sowing in June or July. If buying bunches, make…

PLANT SOME WALLFLOWERS TO MIX WITH TULIP BULBS

GETTING TOUGH WITH TURF!

Award-winning designer, TV broadcaster and best-selling author who makes the ordinary extraordinary Thanks to the protracted drought this summer, lawns up and down the country have suffered, my own included. This has got me thinking more than ever about some alternative approaches to turf and how we manage our lawns. One simple approach is to allow part of your previously tightly trimmed lawn to run wild and become meadow. A mown path through a longer meadow area or a meadow section towards the end of the garden will survive drought and support more wildlife than a conventional, close-cropped lawn. But if you’re still keen on the ‘Wimbledon look’ then there’s a new (ish) way of achieving this by over-sowing a new species into your lawn. Microclover, which is a selected form of common…

GETTING TOUGH WITH TURF!

BRING HERBS INDOORS FOR WINTER

Now’s the time to pot up tender herbs to grow indoors on a warm windowsill through winter. Some herbs don’t cope with an onslaught of wintry weather, so if you want to carry on harvesting them for the next few months, take action now! One that won’t survive outside in winter is basil, which is an annual. There are also lots of herbs, such as sage and thyme, that will sail through winter outside, fending off the frost and wet, but won’t grow during this time, so they can also come indoors where they’ll appreciate the warmth, and you can enjoy them in your cooking. Even super-hardy herbs such as rosemary and mint will grow better over winter indoors, so include those, too. Divide up and pot small sections of your plants…

BRING HERBS INDOORS FOR WINTER

GIVE THESE EASY VEG A GO!

It’s quite rare to see Jerusalem artichokes at any shows because they’re a late-developing vegetable. The only event I’ve seen them at is the RHS Late Fruit and Vegetable show. But they’re easy to grow. I planted some more than 10 years ago and even though I try my best to harvest every tuber I see, they still seem to bounce back every year. Jerusalem artichokes need little attention during the growing season and produce a large crop of underground tubers, rather like potatoes, for harvesting in autumn and winter. They send up tall stems topped with yellow flowers in autumn and can offer protection on a windy allotment if the plants are tied around to a wire and post. Prepare the soil by weeding and enriching with home-made compost if your…

GIVE THESE EASY VEG A GO!

Late-autumn planting is under way

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg TV gardener and social media star. Also a seed guardian for the Heritage Seed Library Now I’m able to grow alliums again without fear of allium leaf miner attack (thanks to covering the beds with Enviromesh covers), it’s all go with garlic planting. My elephant garlic bulbs are already in the ground, but this week I’m planting out regular-sized garlic. That said, the ones I grew this year were a pretty good size and simply delicious, so I’ll be planting some of my harvested bulbs. To my shame, I don’t know what variety they are as the wooden labels I use to note this in the garden were pulled up and chewed to bits by Nipper, my dog, when he was a puppy…

Late-autumn planting is under way

Creamy potato and butterbean pie

My maincrop potatoes are stored in paper bags for winter. We grew a patriotic red, white and blue collection to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee – the varieties ‘British Queen’, ‘Heidi Red’ and ‘Blue Annelise’ were outstanding. I also grew tried and tested ‘Charlotte’. It’s time to order seed potatoes for next year, so get going now as rare and unusual varieties sell out quickly. Mail order supplies start to arrive in mid-December and January, ready for chitting. We’ve carefully folded up and saved our patio potato bags to re-use them. Growing in containers worked well this year; we were able to keep plants well watered. Ingredients SERVES 6 ● 800g potatoes ● 2 leeks (300g), sliced ● 2 onions, chopped ● 30g butter ● 2 tablespoons rapeseed oil ● 50g plain flour ● 600ml milk or soya milk ● 400g…

Creamy potato and butterbean pie

BRING YOUR DESIGNS TO LIFE

Mark won Landscape designer of the year 2020 and his book Royal Gardens of the World was published in September 2020 This year we’ve looked at all the processes that go into designing a garden, but once you have a plan and you’re happy with the layout, you’ll need to transpose your design onto your plot. Be warned – there will be that moment when you’ll look out of your window and just see mud, but don’t panic. It will pass and quickly your new garden will appear! Get messy! Getting the most disruptive aspects done first is paramount. You’ll need to clear the garden, level the site and look at and improve drainage. Then you can move onto garden features such as pergolas or steps. You may need to do it in…

BRING YOUR DESIGNS TO LIFE

A MEETING OF MINDS

Star of BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show and best-selling author. His allotment sits in the Rhondda Valley Last Monday was the Annual General Meeting of our allotment society, when all members get the chance to meet in a local club, enjoy a beer and participate in society affairs. This convivial evening allows officers of the club to be elected and everyone to have a say in how our allotments are run. This is true democracy in action and ensures the allotment is a happy, thriving place to be. Not only that, it’s warm at the club, there’s a good pint of beer and it’s a chance for all members to meet up at least once a year as this is the only time we’re all together at one time. So…

A MEETING OF MINDS

Favourite fuchsias to try

The world's finest share their tips for success John Nicholass John is a retired Industrial Chemist and has had an interest in horticulture for many years, and fuchsias specifically for over 30 years. He has a collection of more than 250 different fuchsias and is fascinated by the range of flower shapes, sizes and colours. He is the current secretary and webmaster of the British Fuchsia Society. Back in 2020 I wrote about some of my favourite fuchsias, but here are a few more I really like and why. Some may be difficult to source or grow but, in my humble opinion, they’re worth the effort. ‘Sister Ann Haley’ Not the easiest to grow, this was introduced by Clifford Cranshaw in the UK in 1988 – a result of a cross between ‘Loeky’ and ‘Eden…

Favourite fuchsias to try

THE PROBLEM SOLVER

Got a problem? Our Problem Solver can help! See our contact details on page 3 #GNASKTHEEXPERTS Odd things are growing on my camellia... Nicola Bowen, by email Stefan says: Your question is twofold: what are the things growing on your plant, and is it safe to remove them? I can understand why you’re puzzled because it does look rather as if your camellia has decided to produce a crop of apples. What you’ve found are the symptoms of an infection called camellia gall. It’s caused by a microscopic, yeast-like fungus and can be fairly common in some seasons, although usually wet ones, rather unlike this year. The swellings can form on leaves, buds and even flowers and they change slowly from the red colour you’ve seen to become almost chalky white as a…

THE PROBLEM SOLVER

Weekly crossword 44 NUMBER When all the answers are in place, the letters in the squares from 1 to 14 will spell out the common name of a bulbous plant, and the letters in the odd-numbered squares from 15 to 31 will spell out its botanical name. ACROSS 5 Prefix meaning ‘relating to sound’ (5)8 Type of worm found abundantly in soil (8)9 Bodily feature, and a type of orange (5)10 Princess Royal (4)11 Andean pack animal (5)12 Unwell (3)15 Species or variety name meaning ‘treelike’ (8)18 Woodwind instrument (4)20 Spongy tissue inside a stem (4)21 Dante Gabriel ___, Pre-Raphaelite painter (8)22 Not at home (3)27 France’s longest river (5)28 Sorbus ___, the Whitebeam (4)30 Plea of having been elsewhere during a crime (5)31 Type of pesticide that is taken in by a…

Pick of the POST

Growing starlet We’re introducing our granddaughter to gardening and this is the result, a butternut squash that weighed 2.67 kilos. This is the largest of about 20 large ones, all of which would beat those I grew! Charles Edwards, Kent Helping hands This is a picture of the parsnip we’ve grown in our garden. My son has helped me plant and care for all our vegetables in the garden all year and he loves it. We planted a whole packet of seeds and only got two parsnips out of them in the end. They’re big and I’m impressed with them. Can’t wait to try again next year! Natalia Whittaker, by email Autumn coat I thought you might like to see how my tree houseleek (aeonium) changes through the seasons. Here’s a picture of it from spring and…

Pick of the POST

Gin and tonic for Christmas

This Philotheca myoporoides will make an unusual and memorable gift this festive season. When rubbed or brushed against, the foliage releases a fragrance reminiscent of a freshly poured gin and tonic. Plant outside after the festive period and white, scented blooms will emerge in spring. Supplied complete with red pot, decorative moss and Christmas label, perfect for giving as a gift. Delivery in December, in time for Christmas. Dainty and fragrant narcissus This elegant bronze pot of paperwhites may be dainty to look at but it certainly packs a perfumed punch. Perfect for decorating your own home or for giving as a gift to a lov ed one. Specially prepared for early flowering over the festive season, five delightful, multi-headed bulbs will arrive already planted in their bronze, snowflake pot with decorative…

Gin and tonic for Christmas

People, Plants & Places

Garden celebrates black history Anew landscaped garden has been unveiled in a North London park to mark Black History Month. Entitled The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship, the garden in Gladstone Park in Brent features three flower beds in the shape of an anchor, an African drum and a ship, to commemorate the history of Black Britons. Antonia Couling, a Brent-based garden designer, has worked with artist Harun Morrison to bring the garden to life. She addressed Harun’s request for perennial planting that will survive in this exposed, dry, sunny site, while providing interest throughout the year. The intention is to leave the majority of plants over the winter rather than cutting them back so that the frost-laden stems and flower heads provide added interest in the colder months. The beds will bring together…

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