Most people think the garden has gone to sleep now and all the important jobs bar those mundane ones like raking leaves and cutting back herbaceous borders are all that are left to do. Apart from taking stock of what worked, what needs to be moved or removed as the case may be and of course bulb planting for spring, there are still some fun jobs that you can undertake, and I hope to do these with my gardening course this month. The task I look forward to most is taking hardwo

Another May, another gardening course done and dusted! It never fails to surprise me how fast the second half of the course goes but with all the great things we squeeze in from pruning the roses at the War Memorial Gardens to testing soil samples from the students gardens and of course taking cuttings it’s no wonder things fly by in a flash. This year was a bit different to others with the snow back in March and the general slow start to the growing season but as I repeatedl