A miserable day for visiting any outdoor event but a lovely garden, friendly folk and great cake made up for the cold and miserable drizzle in the Ashton’s garden.
Thanks to Margaret and Bill for the visit and Wanda for the photos. Well done
Hello everyone. Gardening is not far away, especially planning the garden. No doubt we all lost some of our favourite plants, l lost 50% of my tropical collection and the remaining ones that survived l am waiting for a sign of new growth.
We should be noticing an improvement next month so it’s a good time now to find a nice day and dig over the border lift and divide clumps of perennials. Any spare we could exchange between ourselves especially as we are going to notice a big rise in prices at the garden centres. l have ordered some new seed varieties l am going to sow hopefully I will share them with you .
We were due to visit Norman’s tropical garden on Monday but unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel the visit. We are hoping to rearrange soon.
We started our April meeting discussing offers to the group from Hartleys Garden Centre where the owner has agreed to take us on a guided tour. In addition our group are to have an exclusive guided visit to a beautiful garden in Birkdale which opens in Summer under the National Garden Scheme. This garden is described as ‘a walled garden surrounding a Victorian house with formal and informal planting mainly cottage garden style, accessed by bark and gravel paths.’ It is gorgeous.
We discussed what our gardens looked like after the recent bad weather. One of our members had taken photos of her gardens to show how bare it looks at the moment. She will do this every month so we can see the changes.
One of the group who is very successful with pots shared what are her favourite plants for pots are:
Pot 1- Put a cordaline in the middle, and put scarlet geraniums and deep blue lobelia around it.Pot 2. Pot full of deep blue headbourne lilies These plants do not like to be moved they like to be pot bound. Pot 3. Argyranthemum Molimba rose which is a gorgeous plant which flowers until the frost. Edged with petunias. Wheelbarrow -Scarlet geraniums, Purple nemesis, pink and white verbena, pink dassia, trailing ivy, trailing dark blue lobelia. Nita also suggests using blue pots to add to the impact. Continue reading
The Gardening – Practical group will start again on 6th February,10 o clock
at Maghull Parish Hall. This group has only just started, so are looking for new members to join. They have a plot of land at Hudson School if you would like to have a go at growing your own vegetables or flowers, or you can just come along and share ideas.
If you want further information come to the group support table on a Tuesday morning or send a reply to this post.
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