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March brings breezes loud and shrill stirs the dancing daffodil

3/1/2021

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I am desperate for Spring to be here. Just when you think winter is over, March can deliver an icy blow of hail and even snow. However, the days are getting longer (hooray!) and by the end of the month BST will here again (double hooray!).

Cheery Cornus Sericea ‘Flaviramea’
Dogwoods bring a dash of cheer to any border through the winter months. The golden-twig dog wood is a medium size shrub producing a blaze of slender greenish-yellow stems, often turning lighter through winter. The ovate green leaves on display in summer turn red and orange in autumn and the plant provides small flat cream flowerheads as well as white berries.

Dogwoods are extremely easy to grow, they will tolerate almost any garden soil and aspect. Perfect for planting now, bareroot plants are still available until the end of the month.

Vicky’s Top Tip
The secret to a good display is annual pruning. Only the young stems carry zingy colour, as they age the more faded and gnarly they become. Prune hard in March.

Dogwoods (Cornus Sericea ‘Flaviramea’)
Dogwoods (Cornus Sericea ‘Flaviramea’)
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    A year in the garden

    One of the most common questions I am asked by my clients is; "how can I get colour in my garden all year round?"

    Over the next 12 months I am going to post a new plant for each month. This plant will be of seasonal interest to the month. I will also offer advice on how to plant it and top tips for how to maintain it.
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    I have always been grateful for the seasons and the different weather and colours they bring to the garden. For each month I will be quoting from one of my favourite childhood poems ‘The Garden Year’ by Sara Coleridge

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