Sarah’s Monthly Snippets

It has certainly been a busy few weeks. On the cusp of May and June we welcomed Adam Frost to our Milford garden centre where, hot on the heels of Chelsea, he gave some fascinating and highly entertaining gardening presentations to our customers. I also very much enjoyed my trip to the NEC for Gardener’s […]

June is a lovely month and I think we may be in for a horticultural treat this year given that spring arrived so late. Certainly, in my garden, spring and summer blooms are blending in a riot of colour because some of the plants I would have expected to have finished flowering are still blooming, […]

I like to think of May as a particularly cheerful month in the garden. This is because by about 10 May the danger of frost should have passed in our area, so all those wonderful bedding plants can be planted out without fear. I think bedding plants are an under-appreciated group of plants. They flower […]

Well, March certainly didn’t want to let go of winter this year.  We have gardening projects we have been itching to get on with but have been thwarted by the wet and cold. Even pruning the roses took days rather than hours because of rain interruptions and the fact that everything took longer due to […]

Hurrah, the days are lengthening and there is more opportunity to get outside and get gardening as March progresses. It is a good time to plant all sorts of hardy plants from trees and shrubs to perennials, roses and climbers. Lots of fabulous new plants are arriving in the garden centres from now on, so […]