I love winter, especially on cold crisp days when the world can be seen with such clarity. These are the months to prepare and plan, to prune, weed and add… The post January gardening ideas: mid-winter first appeared on Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
I’ve been watching all of the posts on social media recently instructing us to prune this and prune that. You’d think if you didn’t prune something the world would end!… The post Five examples of when not to prune first appeared on Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
Ferns are very easy to grow from spores and although it takes a number of years, it’s rewarding and you can grow huge numbers of ferns for free! Grow along… The post How to grow ferns from spores first appeared on Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
We took on our new allotment in Yorkshire in February 2021 and, with almost two full growing seasons now behind us, I’m starting to think ahead to 2023 (join my… The post Allotment plan 2023 first appeared on Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
One of the pieces of advice the gardening world has got wrong over the years is about picking up fallen leaves from around plants. While it makes sense to sweep… The post The importance and benefits of keeping fallen leaves around plants first appeared on Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
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...
I love lots of plants people call weeds (see my book) but there are some plants that can be problematic in gardens and worth removing, such as ground elder, Aegopodium podagraria. Ground elder is a beautiful plant, with attractive green leaves and white umbels of flower that look like short cow parsley in early summer.| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais'. Grown among grasses, the foliage dissolves with snaking blackcurrant purple and pink spires rising from the froth. Everyone was talking about it and I was hooked, ordering seeds from Chiltern Seeds to sow that spring. In our| 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...
Hardwood cuttings are an easy way of taking pieces of woody stem of shrubs, some trees and climbers to grow new plants. It’s done when plants are dormant in winter, when they’ve dropped their leaves. Use hardwood cuttings to grow more Buddleja, hydrangea, elderflower, cornus, jasmine, honeysuckle, gooseberries, roses, figs and currants. Check online to| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I used to have a mild apathy toward Brussels sprouts, boiled and soggy, I can't say I'd've rushed out to grow them... until I sliced and fried them. Fried sliced or roasted whole Brussels sprouts take on a whole new flavour explosion to the point I put them near the top of my favourite vegetables| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
