The Garden Year: April 2025

For this year’s Garden Year linky I”m going to share advice from Songbird Survival about how we can make our gardens the best they can be for birds.

My garden has sprung into life in the past month, and it’s been a very welcome sight. MOH has started to cut the grass, though now he’s realised the blades on the lawn mower need some attention so that’s on his list to sort out. I roped him in to help me catch up with the lavender bushes too, just giving them a light trim as we missed the opportunity to cut the flowers back at the end of their flowering season last year. Thankfully it was a gloriously sunny morning, which was just as well as we had five lavender bushes to tackle.

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April is a good time to prepare for summer and sow wildflower meadows and hardy annuals, which are great for encouraging insects. Or why not plant a buddleia, there’s a very good reason they’re often known as the butterfly bush!

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The Garden Year: November 2024

Welcome to the last Garden Year linky of the year as realistically there’s little to post about over the winter months, and so this linky takes a break. Thanks to everyone who’s joined me throughout the year - enjoy the winter, let’s hope it’s kind.

This past month I’ve been trying to catch up in my garden - I’ve still lavender that hasn’t been cut, and realistically much of which remains uncut is likely to stay uncut. I’ve got some done on the nicer days, but with an unexplained pain in my wrist I’m trying to do less of what aggravates it - and it seems chopping and secateur use is on that list. It gets better when rested though, so that’s good news.

I am hoping to do some small tree tidying work, though may have to enlist MOH to help with that - which will be good, but also trying as explaining exactly where to cut things can sometimes get lost in translation to a not-so-keen gardener!

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The Garden Year: October 2024

Welcome back to this month’s Garden Year linky - if you were here last month, it was great to see you. If you’re joining for the first time, you’re very welcome. The linky will stay open for the whole month, so I hope you’ll pop back during the month. I’m looking forward to reading about your garden projects and garden visits.

Well this past month we’ve managed to sneak in some sunny days - realistically they’re likely to be the last, but we may be lucky you never know. My sunflowers flowered last month and my tomatoes began to ripen, though shocked by the amount of rain quite a few of them split.

What have you been up to in your garden?

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