Has Your Garden got the Winter Blues? Brighten it up with Caroline Tilston's Top 5 Gardening Tips for January
Read on for some great ideas to cheer up your garden this winter with the first part of our monthly gardening tips feature by Caroline Tilston, author of the new Garden Design Series...
1. Don't take the Christmas fairy lights down! Maybe re-arrange them and call them festoon lights but leave them up to provide a little bit of magic in the garden throughout the year.
2. If you don't have any outside fairy lights, sorry, 'festoon' lights - the DIY shops sell them off incredibly cheaply at this time of year.
3. Pick up some primulas while you're there to brighten a window sill. You can just slot them into small terracotta pots (you don't really need to take them out of their little plastic pots) and they look great.
4. It's the best time of year to see the bare bones of your garden - do you need to re-think the design? Someone once said to me - If you can get a garden to look good in January you're onto a winner for the rest of the year!
5. If you do decide to change the garden, it's a great excuse to sit inside, stay warm, read books and dream of what you can do when the weather gets a little kinder.
Caroline's new Garden Design Series will be available to buy this Spring - to read more about the series click here.
About the author:
Caroline Tilston is the author of Small Family Gardens (2007) and Modern Family Gardens (2006), John Wiley & Sons. Having worked for over a decade in television production, Caroline retrained as a gardener with the National Trust. For the last ten years, she has been running her own garden design business. She also writes for gardening magazines and national newspapers, as well as doing radio broadcasting.
Steve Gorton is an established photographer, with over 20 years’ experience of working with publishers. He has photographed a vast range of subjects, though his quality of observation is particularly borne out in his observation of place and environment, whether natural or manmade. He is also the photographer of English Eccentric Interiors by Miranda Harrison (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) and Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque by Roy Johnston (John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
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