Stratford-upon-Avon Living Jan - Feb 2021
Our first issue of 2021 - we are celebrating the good things COVID has brought - an appreciation of local businesses, a better sense of community, and more time to work on our homes. We have a real-life room transformation, plus the usual dose of recipes and interviews.
Our first issue of 2021 - we are celebrating the good things COVID has brought - an appreciation of local businesses, a better sense of community, and more time to work on our homes. We have a real-life room transformation, plus the usual dose of recipes and interviews.
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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN<br />
Planting for the future...<br />
Garden lovers amongst us will<br />
appreciate the advice from our<br />
gardening expert Matt Biggs. Matt<br />
is a regular on Radio 4’s GQT’s<br />
expert panel, here he advises us to<br />
appreciate the landscape around us<br />
and perhaps invest in the future of<br />
our world by planting a tree.<br />
2020 has been a year many of us will wish<br />
to forget. One of the very few positive<br />
things to come from it however has been<br />
the appreciation so many of us have<br />
developed for our gardens and open<br />
spaces, parks and woodlands, places we<br />
can wonder at the natural beauty on our<br />
doorstep and that we may have looked at<br />
with fresh eyes.<br />
Trees are so important to our landscape<br />
and to our world and there are many tree<br />
planting initiatives that you can get involved<br />
in. Imagine the National Trust gardens and<br />
landscapes minus their majestic trees - and<br />
yet the people who planted them knew<br />
they would never live to see them in all<br />
their glory.<br />
With that in mind it is an idea perhaps for<br />
as many of us as can to plant for the future,<br />
and our children’s and grandchildren’s<br />
futures too.<br />
There are many initiatives, some local,<br />
some national and some international with<br />
which to get involved. His Royal Highness<br />
Prince Charles has given his support to<br />
Plant Britain, Trees for Climate, the World<br />
Land Trust and many others are also<br />
ongoing initiatives to green our planet and<br />
if you don’t want to get involved in that way<br />
then plant a tree where you live. It doesn’t<br />
have to be a mighty oak, there are so many<br />
trees, slow growing or otherwise that we<br />
can plant to enhance where we live - for<br />
ourselves and for others and indeed in<br />
memory of others, winter is still the best<br />
time to plant trees and lots of people have<br />
been busy - why don’t you plant some,<br />
too?<br />
Find out more from Matt Biggs by<br />
visiting his website matthewbiggs.com<br />
20 | www.stratford<strong>upon</strong>avonliving.co.uk<br />
“Gardening is a way<br />
of life, a passion which<br />
gives us a connection<br />
with the earth that<br />
sustains us.”<br />
Matt Biggs