Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Winter brings a certain kind of clarity. I’m clearing around the plants in the beds, making sense of the green jumble of self-sown weeds and ornamentals and the runners of alpine strawberries, buttercups and tiny brambles. A chance to assess quite what’s getting tangled up with what, and who’s decided that the very best place to grow this year is right in the middle of this clump of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum ‘Warrior’, to be precise). And then pulling out those plants that, through aeons of evolutionary adaptation, grow incredibly well in this place, in order to give a chance to those whose presence here owes more to whimsy, or to a knee-jerk purchasing decision. We like to make things difficult for ourselves, and – not for the first time – I find myself wondering what a strange activity this gardening thing is.
A year of garden coaching
To find out more about my my 12 month online garden coaching programme, please visit the website, where you can read more details and add your name to the waiting list to be the first to hear when enrolment opens up again in the autumn.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
