You know spring is on its way as daylight hours lengthen, temperatures warm and while the snowdrops (Galanthus) and early Crocus tomassianus are finishing, daffodils (Narcissus) and the wave of other spring bulbs are hitting their stride. Ready, steady, wait... then sow! Begin sowing seeds indoors: there's no escaping that March and April are the| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
Summer! Well, if the weather behaves. It often feels like summer has stop-started into action at some point in May and, come June, there is no denying its arrival. Alliums and ox-eye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) bursting into flower and a rush of upward vertical grass growth is nature telling us the warm season is here.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
May is the month when all plants start growing rapidly, resulting in lush, immaculate leaves. Everything feels fresh with endless possibilities and as a gardener, there is probably no better feeling than that. Now is the time to care for your seedlings, taking them onto maturity and to get into a rhythm or repeated extra| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I really love the end weeks of winter, which in the UK is February and very occasionally stretching into the first week or two of March, particularly in the northern regions, where our garden is based. It's a time before gardens really start growing but much is actually now happening and this month gives you| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
A group of plants I grow a lot in my own garden and in my clients' garden designs is the perennial Salvias. Salvias are part of the mint family, the Lamiaceae and you can see they're related both in the look of the leaves and also the shape of the flowers. It's the scent that| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
