by Janine Winlaw | Mar 19, 2025 | Home and Garden
Garden Talk It may still be rather chilly, but when the sun comes out, warming your face and the sky is blue, it does feel as though spring is on the horizon. You may have been organised enough to get some early spring bulbs into the ground, but if you didn’t get...
by Janine Winlaw | Jan 10, 2025 | Home and Garden, SE Magazines
Winter scent to lift your mood One of the nicest elements of winter flowering plants is the scent. Winter flowers tend to have a particularly powerful perfume as they have to work harder to attract the few pollinating insects around at this time of year....
by Janine Winlaw | Dec 13, 2024 | Home and Garden
Whether it’s attractive bark, shiny berries or a splash of colour, there are lots of plants to add winter interest to your garden…. Beautiful bark Betula utilis var. jacquemontii has beautiful white bark, which glows out in soft wintery light. It’s...
by Janine Winlaw | Oct 18, 2024 | Home and Garden, SE Magazines
I’m a huge fan of ornamental grasses. They add wonderful naturalism, movement and texture to planting and come into their own in early autumn with their golden seed heads shimmering and swaying in the breeze. They look great in big drifts, acting like a neutral foil...
by Janine Winlaw | Sep 18, 2024 | Home and Garden, SE Magazines
With their mass of tiny star-like flowers in subtle shades of pale mauve to dark purple, pinks to whites, autumn flowering asters are wonderful for keeping the colour going – often into late October. Now is a great time to treat yourself to some – ideally at least...
