SPRING INTO THE GARDEN

Winston Churchill once said “every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.” In my experience, chief among those problems (and less fascinating, more bewildering) is how not to immediately kill everything within it. Of course, Churchill also called Gandhi “a bad man and an enemy of the Empire,” so not all his musings were home-runs. My point being, albeit arriving circuitously and with the main goal of showing off that I’ve done some research, that gardening isn’t easy. I am the opposite of green fingered – which I have just learned is known as “brown thumbed,” but as that sounds like a specialist, altogether more post-watershed article, I’ll just say I kill plants.

So, who better to write an article giving simple tips on how to bring your garden to life this Spring? Well, pretty much anyone, obviously, but you’ve got me, so let’s knuckle down and we can all get through this together.

Lockdown has taught us how important our outside space is. A garden is something to truly treasure: a private haven to interact with nature in, or simply to lie in your underpants and soak up some sun. However, living in the city, many of us don’t have that luxury and feel weirdly self-conscious about lying in the road