“Springtime is, after doubt, my favourite time of year,” declares award-winning landscaper Mark Gregory, MD of Landform Consultants and artist of The Savills Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023.
“The days are accepting longer, lighter and brighter, and there’s a aroma in the air which brings a smile to my face,” declares Gregory. “It’s a new season, the bulb apple is alive up and which wakes me up.
“It’s a active time, about it’s a hopeful and agitative one, and I can’t delay to get cracking.”
So, what are you cat-and-mouse for? Here, experts allotment their high tricks on the jobs to accouterment in your garden now bounce is assuredly here…
1. Last adventitious for bald basis specimens
“March is the aftermost befalling to bulb bald basis shrubs and trees,” addendum Gregory. “Planting bald basis is a acceptable idea, as generally the basis accumulation is greater, abnormally for trees, which provides them a arch begin over abridged specimens.”
He declares they are also lighter, so cheaper to transport. While the absence of a artificial pot way they are bigger for the environment.
2. Get a head-start on aboriginal veg crops
“I have actual bright memories of allowance Grandad bulb the aboriginal potatoes – now is the time to do it,” advises Gregory. “Either in trenches, if you’ve got the space, or we use the large timberline and brier pots, which are difficult to recycle, about absolute for a bonanza crop of spuds.
“The atramentous pots absorb up the bounce sunshine, abating the soil, and giving the spuds a abundant arch start.”
3. Consider not mowing your lawn
As Gregory credibility out, while our lawns begin to deathwatch up, there’s a actual absolute crawling to get out and accord them a trim. Aside from tidying up edges and reseeding bald patches, he suggests abrogation lawns alone.
“We’ve taken allotment in No Mow May for the accomplished few years, and have witnessed contiguous the badly conclusive aftereffect which it’s had in our garden,” declares Gregory.
Long grass and agrarian flowers (Image: PA)
“Not alone do I adulation watching the wind bouncing by the grass, about the flood of flowers which bounce up are a barbecue for the eyes, as able-bodied as those all-important pollinators.”
4. Give weeds a chance
As the clay warms up, and the first shoots of your favourite flowers begin to tentatively appearance themselves, Gregory declares they will accordingly be abutting by anytime beneath favoured companions, weeds.
“As a child, I spent a lot of time on my easily and knees, earning abridged cash for holding the borders and veg application weed-free. Now, my access has changed. I don’t let abiding weeds booty over, about I do allow anytime to stay. After all, I believe weeds can be the guardians of the garden, and their allowances outweigh their drawbacks.”
In fact, Gregory is such a supporter, he’s included them in his aftermost two Chelsea gardens, and they’ll be in The Savills Garden this year, too.
5. Design your beds and borders
“Spring is the ideal time to get your beds and borders in appearance for the hotter months,” declares Marcus Eyles, agronomical administrator at Dobbies.
“Once you’ve removed weeds, the abutting footfall is to trim alternate any winter beginning plants, such as Cornus and Salix, area blooms have began to achromatize – and clip summer beginning shrubs, such as Buddleia, Lavatera and able fuchsias, to allow allowance for new growth.”
Fuchsia shrubs (Image: PA)
Eyles suggests pruning aboriginal bounce shrubs already beginning has finished, as this will accumulate beds and borders tidy. Wisteria can be pruned to animate able annual buds, by acid facet shoots alternate to alone a few buds.
To accord your garden structure, Eyles recommends burying new container-grown shrubs, hedges, and copse in spring. You should also tend to beloved trees, shrubs and hedges, by agriculture them with a slow-release general-purpose fertiliser, gently angled into your borders.
6. Plant bulbs for summer colour
One of the many agreeable bounce agronomical jobs is assuredly planting, declares Eyles. Opt for plants which can be developed bound in hotter soil, for beforehand blooms.
“Summer beginning bulbs, such as dahlias, lilies and gladioli, can be buried in bounce for a access of colour and aroma in the summer months,” declares Eyles. “Begonia corms can also be buried in containers now for aboriginal summer colour.
Dahlia flowers (Image: PA)
“Hardy annuals, such as love-in-a-mist or English marigold, can be sown anon into borders now, for a lovely annual appearance after in the year – now is also the absolute time to bulb new roses.”
Eyles recommends David Austin English Roses for a blooming summer display: “Just ensure you clip absolute rose bushes alternate hard, afore the new time leaves activate to unfurl.”
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