Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
It’s as well I serviced my secateurs recently (the little black rubber bumper that acts as a shock absorber had gone AWOL) – they’ve been getting a good workout as my work gardening year draws to a close. There’s something quite satisfying about starting at one end of the border and snipping your way along, clear-felling those seed heads you’ve decided won’t greatly contribute either to a frosty morning’s spectacle or to the winter diet of your avian friends. Today, the perennial sunflowers got the chop, together with the sedum and scraggy seedlings of Euphorbia characias I’m not entirely convinced have quite come true. I’ll give them another year to do something impressive, then I might have to be ruthless. In the meantime, the bonfire is piled a little higher, and the border has a little more room for manoeuvre. That’s got to be worth a mince pie or two.
A year of garden coaching
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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.
