gardening
Island Life - April/May 2010
Tina trained as a professional gardener after leaving
school and spent a summer working in Tuscany as
an English Gardener. She has a National Diploma in
Horticulture.
Long live
the summer
Tina Hughes
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Anne Ginger
Est. 1980
Manufacturers of fine soft furnishings
The green shoots of economic
recovery may or may not be
visible, but in the garden they are
everywhere.
replace it. April and May are really wonderful
months to buy new plants as all the new stock
will be in the garden centres and they will start
to establish quickly as the ground warms up.
This is also the time to begin sowing many
Well, almost everywhere, after the snow this
vegetable varieties such as beetroot, broad
winter some of the tender plants which thrive
beans and parsnips. Fit quick growing crops,
here may be looking unhappy. It is sometimes
such as radishes or lettuce between slower
hard to decide what to do about plants that
growing ones to make good use of available
appear to have died, some just need a good
space. I feed my garden with poultry manure at
tidy up, others will have lost all their top
this time of the year as the nutrients are quickly
growth but might regenerate from ground
used by plants. Roses and shrubs will benefit
level.
from a boost.
Evergreen plants such as Pittosporum
Curtains
Blinds
Loose Covers
Headboards
Extensive library of
designer fabrics and
wallpapers
have been damaged quite badly and look
rather unhealthy. Foliage may be scorched
and branches dying back, but before you
decide that the plant has little chance of
recovery allow them a few more weeks before
you remove them. I have seen Ceanothus
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devastated by a freezing winter sprouting
Everything for a
stylish interior
vigorously by late summer once the dead wood
4B Lake Ind. Way
Newport Road
Lake
Tel 01983 407730
Web: www.anneginger.co.uk
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tenuifolium and Ceanothus species may
was removed, they flowered beautifully the
following year.
It is always disappointing to lose plants
but this also provides the perfect chance to
introduce something new into the garden to
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
is a magnet to bees and butterflies
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