Spring is here

Get set for spring and go gardening now, that’s the message for gardeners this season. Spring has arrived early across the nation and our gardens are bursting into growth.

It’s the official start of the gardening year and your garden calendar starts here with the GardenHealth experts at Westland and Unwins. This new site heralds a brand new chapter in gardening and you are experiencing it as it germinates from a small but perfect seed into a huge, beautiful and productive tree of knowledge.

Gardens across the nation have been welcoming in an earlier spring than normal this season. That’s the wonderful thing about gardening, we simply can’t control the weather, so every season in every year has completely different conditions to challenge and inspire us.

Spring is the official start of the gardening year and behind the scenes many of us including the experts at Westland and Unwins, have been germinating ideas, growing big plans and preparing for the gardening season ahead.

This new website from Westland and Unwins is just one major event coming fresh, this season from your favourite garden health experts. With these two market innovators working together, it offers today’s gardeners advice, support and products for every facet of gardening from seed to soil.

The new Gardenhealth website is packed full of timely advice and information to help you to get the very best from your garden right through every month of the year. Keep logging on; it’s an evolving site and we’ll be adding more and more each month to make www.gardenhealth.com your first stop for garden advice, information and lots, lots more. We’d love to hear your views, so if you’ve something to say, if you’ve got a gardening query or if there’s something you want to see here let us know. Email us.

Flower Power
Look up into the branches of the trees this month for a succession of soft, elegant flowers, often borne on bare stems that flutter in the breeze. Spring blossom is simply divine. Most are easy to grow and some can even be grown in pots.

Flowering trees are inspirational and add wonderful visual interest to the garden. What’s more you don’t need a large garden to enjoy them. It’s not too late to plant trees this season, but for the best results choose containerised plants that can be planted at almost any time.

Potted Glory
Containers are a great way to introduce instant impact into a corner of your garden. Carefully positioned they can focus attention away from parts of the garden still under construction, or simply lift a dull corner before the garden springs into life. Take time this month to plant up a spring container, it’s an easy way to achieve a new garden feature and you can tailor it to suit your colour scheme, mood or even a momentary whim.

This month’s topical links:

Spring Blossom
Master Class – Instant Spring Container project
Master Class – Potatoes
Garden Calendar – what you could or should be doing in the garden this month