Winter

Winter gardening Keep your garden healthy and interesting through the coldest months. Winter is the underestimated season. UK gardens designed properly for it deliver some of the year’s most beautiful effects: low sun striking frost-rimmed grasses and seedheads, fragrant winter shrubs flowering in cold light, polished evergreen structure standing while everything else is dormant, and…

Winter garden prep Get your garden ready for winter and set it up for a strong spring. The work you do between November and February is the most undervalued in the gardening year. Structural pruning is easier and safer with the leaves off. Heavy clay soil is transformed by a single autumn mulch in a…