The Chatty Gardener

Creamy yellow tulip flower with green background.

A rogue and very early flower for this week's #CheeringUpMondays. More on the blog: bit.ly/4d5HiDh

Have a great week.

#UKGardening #photography #MondayMotiviation #BloomScrolling 🌱 #tulips

Vase of daffodils with foliage.

Plates of cakes with a basket of flowers on a yellow tablecloth.

Spring flowers, coffee, cake and the chance to say thanks to our wonderful garden owners. We heard from some of the charities we support, gave out long service awards to gardens that have opened for five and 20 years, and discussed next year's @ngsopengardens.bsky.social centenary.
#cotswolds

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Front cover of A Year of Colour set among purple and yellow violas.

I've been cheering up the grey days with this new book on colour in gardens. Written by leading designer Ann-Marie Powell, it shows how to create memorable, vibrant displays with plants. Read my review here: bit.ly/4rGVerO

Ad review copy given. Not paid.
#gardening #UKGardening 🌱 #BookReview

Daffodils adding a lovely yellow ring around all the plane trees now #ThickTrunkTuesday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

Seedlings just showing in a pot of compost.

Did you hear me squeal?
#UKGardening #cotswolds #plants 🌱

That’s a lovely gift.

Screen showing title slide of Beyond the Garden Gate against picture of a wooden gate and plants.

All set up to talk to gardeners in Cumnor.
#oxfordshire #UKGardening 🌱

Picture of a garden over two pages of a magazine showing tulips and trees in blossom in the background. The title is Play Time.

A new month and another feature in The English Garden magazine. This month, I'm looking at one of my favourite gardens at one of my favourite times of year - Cerney House in spring.
#Cotswolds #UKGardening #photography #journalist #feature 🌱

Pale creamy white daffodil with yellow trumpet.

A spring beauty for today's Cheering Up Mondays flower though the name suggests it's got the date wrong. More on the blog: bit.ly/4rDvAEf

#CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #daffodils #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #photography #FlowerRecord #narcissi

‘Tis the first day of #meteorological #spring
and it’s raining - of course!
Happy Sunday everyone, have a good day - whatever your weather. #roses 🌱

This is by the front door. A real boost in the constant rain.

Wooden half barrel with pink, purple and yellow polyanthus and yellow daffodils.

This has got to be one of my easier containers. Planted in lockdown, it’s had next to nothing done to it since. The crocus are over and the tulips have still to flower. The two ribes that have suddenly appeared are unexpected. I’m waiting to see if they flower before relocating them.
🌱 #UKGardening

Bud vases shaped like small glass 'milk bottles' in crate with a mix of pink, orange and purple cut flowers.

I'm starting to sow seeds for cut flowers and have been looking back at last year's Gardening Trials (Seed given. Not paid.) There were a few beautiful discoveries. More on the blog: bit.ly/4rAzL3N
#UKGardening 🌱 #CutFlowers #BlogPost #Cotswolds

A blast of early colour from my mum's garden for today's Cheering Up Mondays bloom. More on the blog: bit.ly/4aX9Tcm

#UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation 🌱 #BloomScrolling

Wooden compost bin with spade dug into homemade compost.

Homemade compost. The greenest & cheaper way to garden.
#UKGardening #compist #gardens #Cotswolds 🌱

Actors on a stage with Ukrainian flag.

Ukrainian National Opera taking a final curtain call in Cheltenham, singing their national anthem and reminding us their country is fighting for survival.
#ukraine #cotswolds

Actors on a stage with Ukrainian flag.

Ukrainian National Opera taking a final curtain call in Cheltenham, singing their national anthem and reminding us their country is fighting for survival.
#ukraine #cotswolds

A sad day.

I am so sorry, Jimmy. A really sad day.

Red hippeastrum flower with central white stripes.

This is certainly brightening my Monday morning. Some houseplant colour for Cheering Up Mondays. More on the blog: bit.ly/4koXbXd

#CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #BloomScrolling #UKGardening #Cotswolds 🌱 #photography

That could be this afternoon.

Seed module, trowel and seed box on a potting tray with view out of wet window to garden in the rain.

Hiding in the potting shed out of the rain and seed-sowing. Might try rice!

#UKGardening #cotswolds #GYO 🌱

When you grow Camellias, it’s like having roses in February.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Floral display with pink, orange, blue and white flowers.

Independent nurseries are the backbone of British gardening but they're under threat. I've been talking to nursery owner Julia Mitchell of Green JJam Nurseries about a new organisation that's just been launched to support them. You can read about it on the blog: bit.ly/4kzMHEj
#UKGardening 🌱

A camellia flower enjoying a glimpse of the sunshine at the end of the day.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Cerise pink cyclamen flowers.

This week's Cheering Up Mondays flower is unrivalled when it comes to winter colour. More on the blog: bit.ly/4jYbHVq

#CheeringUpMondays #photography #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #MondayMotivation 🌱

Right now the Sweet Box (Sarcococca confusa) smells absolutely gorgeous #TinyFlowerTuesday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Golden Gate Park is starting to bloom. Sometimes I need to be reminded that beauty exists, despite the cruelty in our world. #uplift #nature #hope