This week is National Garden week and typically, the rain is coming down! It may not inspire us to be out there for hours on end right now but after all our recent sunshine, the rain is much needed by our plants, crops and wildlife.
Interestingly, I dug my spade into the earth and it came out with moisture on it from the top to the tip so these two days of fairly light rain are really having an impact and getting down to some roots.
National Gardening week occurs every year to encourage and inspire us spend more time in our gardens. They offer us so much in terms of artistic creativity, beauty, solace and tranquillity, physical activity, growing our own food, discovering wildlife, horticultural education and the element of surprise!
Our gardens are a constant source of curiosity, amazement and occasionally disappointment. Sometimes plants just don’t do and eventually die, then there are others that multiply or pop up in alternative colours, that cross breed or seem to just appear from no-where! It’s one of the great joys and mysteries of the garden, you can plan and prepare all you like, but Mother Nature is in control and definitely likes to surprise us!
At this time during lock-down, we need our gardens more than ever so it’s a great time to get busy, experiment with new ideas, start growing your own veg or help and encourage wildlife in the garden.
There are some wildlife gardening ideas from a previous article in our Nature’s Home Magazine here: https://gardening tips for wildlife and more information from the pioneers of National Gardening week, the RHS here: https://national-gardening-week
For additional garden inspiration, Gardeners World is on TV this and every Friday night at 8.30pm on BBC2 featuring seasonal planting ideas and ways to encourage wildlife in the garden.
Happy gardening all!