garden advice

Content Note: this episode contains swearing

Griot Goods owner and exuberant plant nerd Curly Dacs joins Elle for an upbeat episode, where Curly shares some wisdom from the potting bench: people are really just complicated plants. Plant parents of all skill levels (and no skill level at all!) will want to hear what she has to say, so dig into this conversation, forgive yourself for past plant failings, and remember to hydrate.

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Sunshine is out and birds are chirping so I'm sure you're eager to get your flower beds blooming! But how do you design a flower bed? Where do you start? Horticulturist, Emily Pope, joins us again to teach how to do the Mountain Meadow design technique to have your flower beds looking like a gorgeous meadow. She gives specific flower combinations and a step-by-step guide for this natural landscaping look.

As the Coronovirus pandemic has changed many aspects of life over the past many months, the gardens and green spaces all across the UK have continued in full glory over the spring - but Summer has arrived and for many the outdoors is the sanctuary from the continued uncertainty of what lies ahead. Head Gardeners Saul and Lucy have still been full at work at Stonelands and Easy Donyland (as well as their own gardens) and continue to share their lives as professional horticulturists, there tips and tricks and their observations of their gardening lives.

Saul and Lucy aren't always gardening you know - occasionally we have to up sticks and use our expertise elsewhere. This week they would have both been at BBC Gardeners' World Live where they are part of the Floral Marquee Assessment team handing out the awards and then for the rest of the show run the Plant Experts Advice Desk, where visitors to the show bring questions and queries, which the pair attempt to answer. Listen in as we describe why we always enjoy coming together this week!

Instead of a physical show, BBC Gardeners' World Live are running a virtual show celebration online - with live streams from Adam Frost and Monty Don, and plenty of videos including Lucy and Saul. Goto www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com to take part.

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Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC

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"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Would your garden win if butterflies could indeed vote?
Your garden can help save the world, it's true, the little changes we all make together add up. Make positive changes by helping your garden help the planet.
It's a win-win situation, you benefit by watching lots of butterflies and the butterflies benefit from your garden.
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Flowers evolved for insects not humans - so if you thought roses are red you need to think again.
Craig Burrows shows the real colour of flowers, the actual colours that the bees see. 

Perhaps UV photos ought to be shown on every plant label; so that we'll know the flower can actually be seen by our bees too, when we buy plants in the garden centres

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Little changes collectively make massive differences. Avoiding buying bedding plants will help us help the planet.

It won't help the horticulture industry - they'd love you to keep buying these 'plant them and chuck them away' plants year after year; surely there has to be a better alternative for us our gardens and the bees?

Read more - How Green are Bedding Plants? 

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If your garden borders just aren't looking their best and at the first sign of the wind blowing or after the rain, your plants just 'give up the ghost' and lie down on the ground...what can you do about it?


Why is is happening and how can you solve it?

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Soil is the breadbasket of your garden - so what do you need to know about your soil/dirt so that you can put the plants in your garden that will be happiest growing there.

It's all about Right plant, Right place - if the plants you use are happy with the soil you have they will grow well and 'do their thing' - which means you don't have to spend time looking after them.

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Mother Nature spent millions of years perfecting the design of insects so that they can pollinate - but Humans seem to think we can do better - we can't!

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OK, in the 'Battle of the Garden' the current score is Your Garden 10: 0 You.
What can you do and more importantly what shouldn't you do to get your garden back on track and under control...

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As part of our series on creating gardens that don't create unnecessary work for you -
What factors in your garden borders create more work than others.
Pre-warned is pre-armed - if you anticipate any future problems, you can stop them happening in the first place.

Gardening should be a pleasure, if your garden is full of 'stuff' that causes extra work, you won't have a garden you can ever enjoy being in.

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