Spring usually starts to arrive across the country in March, and the longer days provide the opportunity for an increasing range of gardening tasks. It’s time to get busy preparing seed beds and sowing seed, and it’s your last chance to prune roses.
1 Prune bush and climbing roses
2 Plant onion sets and shallots
3 Plant summer-flowering bulbs
4 Lift and divide overgrown clumps of perennials
5 Plant early potatoes
6 Mow the lawn on dry days (if needed)
7 Cut back herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses that have been left standing over winter
8 Keep a few dandelions in your garden to support early bees, particularly pantaloon bees
9 Start off dahlia tubers in pots or trays of damp peat-free compost
10 Prune Buddleja to a low framework of stems to encourage new flowering growth
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Lodsworth & District Garden Club
is for everyone interested in plants and gardening!
You are very welcome to join us no matter what type of garden
you have, be it large or small, established or new, a conservatory,
an allotment, a windowbox or pot plants on the patio. We want
to encourage interest in all types of gardening in our community, providing opportunities for our members to share gardening experience and increasing knowledge of plants and gardens.
We welcome new members to join the Lodsworth & District
Garden Club whatever their level of gardening experience! Membership benefits include subsidised entry to our talks, workshops and visits, with discount from a wide variety of local horticultural suppliers. Please look at our contact page for details of becoming a member of the LDGC and a full list of benefits.
We look forward to welcoming you!
