5 gentle steps to fulfil your garden's potential this year

How to maximise your garden for wildlife and you!

It may be winter but I’m enjoying looking back at photos of our garden - it always looks better than I thought at the time - and quietly dreaming of what it might be like in summer

In this article I’m going to warm us all up for the gardening year ahead with a gentle workout of our minds. Looking at some of things to start thinking about while saying “don’t worry, you don’t have to do them all right now!” I like to spend the winter months dreaming in an enjoyable way of what might be in spring and summer.

Not all of it will happen and that is fine, in fact, it’s part of the fun. Knowing we have the potential for fun projects if we choose to do them while also knowing a garden will grow and be good for wildlife and us if we do nothing at all. That’s gardening, it’s freedom! Gardening is freedom.

To help you, this year I am planning quarterly online Seasonal Workshops to go over articles and ideas ahead of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They’ll be focussed on exciting plants to grow …