Oooh, my first seedlings of 2026 have appeared! Exciting – Here we go! Now January is finally over, the pace of gardening tasks definitely picks up round here – I shall be pruning many of my summer shrubs, sowing my sweet peas, and starting off some bulbs…. Early spring pruning Do you have some shrubs in […]
Whoa! It’s been a chilly week! We got back to pulling on the woolly long-johns even here in the balmy south, and Caroline has been sending us daily videos of snow and ice in the Scottish Highlands. Still, spring WILL arrive for all of us soon, and meantime there is much to be done – […]
The 3Growbags have written a book – Glory be! It has come about in rather an unexpected way, and in fact stems (see what I did there?) from the pandemic. A year ago in the first Lockdown, there were a few big positives among a morass of negatives, and one of them was the huge […]