| Put your garden on a Best of British map Next week is Britain's first National Gardening Week, set up by the Royal Horticultural Society to get the nation growing and to celebrate the joys of gardening. The plants that thrive on little water, says Guy Barter, head of the advisory service, are those with fleshy, succulent leaves, grey leaves, hairy foliage, or those that have spikes. This is also part of RHS Britain in Bloom's Wild about Wildflowers launch, and is a gesture to help replenish a number of the 97 per cent of wildflower meadows lost since 1930. London alone has 40 participants, from Stockwell Primary to the London Lighthouse, who will be sowing a total of over 400 square metres in pockets of spare ground through the city. To kick off the week, around 1,200 schools and community groups will be creating wildflower meadows on wasteland and public places. Gardening with a hosepipe ban is a huge concern, which is why the RHS invites all gardeners — not just RHS members — to call with drought queries as well as thorny gardening problems on Monday, dubbed SOS Day. If you're growing veg this season, the encouraging words are that fruit and veg usually crop adequately without watering. |
Friday, 13 April 2012
Put your garden on a Best of British map
