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The Priceless Gardens Supplement Smyrnium perfoliatum Go with the F low Sue Whigham shares some valuable new-to-gardening advice istockphoto.com/ seven75 / PicturePartners I’m sure that by now we should be used to the rain but I’m not entirely sure that we are. We had a dry, sunny day the other day and how everybody’s mood changed. Some of us managed a quick first cut of our soggy lawns just to give them some semblance of order. And what a difference it makes. We are very behind with our late winter tidy up having left the borders for hibernating insects and foraging birds to pick over. However, after reading Dan Pearson’s Spring Dig Delve Newsletter, in which he says that he and his team finished their cut back during the last week in February, panic has set in! I’m sure, though, that with a bit of hard work ‘little and often’, we’ll no doubt catch up. But for those of you who might be new to gardening, there might be a few tips that you’ll find useful... Whilst it has been tipping it down outside, I’ve been dipping into The Sceptical Gardener by Ken Thompson who is both a biologist and a gardener. As he says, he has been a gardener for more years than he cares to remember. I was particularly taken with his Top 10 Don’ts which are useful for gardening novices as well as for those who have more experience. I for one have spent years cutting back roses to an outside facing bud when pruning floribunda and hybrid tea roses (although I have only one of the latter). This is Rosa ‘Mrs. Oakley Fisher’, a 1920s introduction with soft apricot single flowers and prominent anthers which grows mid border. It got a bit smothered by bryony last year and has already had the Ken Thompson treatment so we’ll see how it looks later in the year. He suggests foregoing the careful search for an outside bud especially if you have a lot of roses and just cut the plant down hard. At the top of my ‘to do’ list is ‘Prune Roses’. Tick for having started on that but black marks for not having secateurs cleaned and sharpened before sallying forth. In the end both sets of secateurs are in ‘hospital’ having a thorough overhaul and I’ve had to buy another cheaper pair as I thought that the job just couldn’t wait. So don’t follow this and invest in a decent pair in the first place and keep them sharp and well oiled. You don’t want to tear at the rose stem with blunt secateurs as you work on the plant. Another don’t, especially useful for someone new to gardening, is not to weed out every seedling in your borders as soon as you spot them. Many plants are desperate to seed and you never know what you might have. Once you know, you can be more discerning but, until then, we have clouds of Smyrnium perfoliatum seedlings in the border in front of the house. I’m not sure how they got there but suspect that we collected a few seeds along the way having spotted an escapee clump on the edge of a local piece of woodland a while ago. They are probably in the ‘wrong place’ as they prefer dappled shade but they can have their day before a few get moved around. There’s plenty of time for this as they are biennial ie. ‘they take two years to grow from seed to maturity’. Another very useful tip, pertinent after such a wet period, is to note what happens to our gardens when it has been so sodden for so long. We have been on a hunt for our geums and fear that they have been well and truly lost. I wonder. The 50% of our soil which is usually empty space other than air has been continuously filled up with water for months and some roots will inevitably have drowned through lack of oxygen. Plants that have adapted to damp 87 priceless-magazines.com
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