As well as tidying up the garden ready for winter you can still sow and plant in the autumn. A spot of gardening with the kids is an ideal activity for a warm autumn afternoon. Late autumn is, in fact, the best time to plant shrubs and trees, including fruit trees. Some of the vegetables […]
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What to Plant with your Kids in July
There is still time to sow and plant vegetables in July and see them harvested either before the end of the summer holidays or by late autumn. The good thing about growing this time of year is that you can sow directly into outside pots or the ground. No need to worry about sowing indoors […]
Floral Friday: Cosmos – Family Friendly Plants
The Cosmos is the sort of flower that you may have seen in other people’s gardens and thought I would love to have that displaying in my garden. It’s a lovely statuesque cottage garden flower, usually with very pretty pastel colours and feathery leaves. It is rather magical for toddlers as it grows to just […]
Floral Friday – Michaelmas Daisy – Family Friendly Plants
Bee on Aster A good late summer performer for the garden is the Aster or Michaelmas Daisy. So called because it has daisy-like flowers from pink, purple to blue and it flowers at the time of Michaelmas, on 29 September when in parts of Europe remember Archangel Michael. Its reliability and hardiness help to make […]
Floral Friday – Aquilegia – Family Friendly Plants
Aquilegia If you know this flower, other names for it are Columbine and Grandma Bonnets; you may be saying what so family friendly about it? It is a cottage garden plant with thin stems holding up the very pretty flower heads which could easily get knocked by a ball or trampled upon. I say yes […]
Floral Friday – Chives – What to plant with your Kids
Chives It is its versatility that makes chives such a great plant to grow with your kids. It is of course a culinary herb and part of the onion family, but its flowers are beautiful – a delicate ball of pinky, purple. The child and family friendly properties of the chive plant Allium Schoenoprasum include […]
Floral Friday: Edible Flowers – Courgette Flowers
Today I am introducing Floral Friday. A regular post every Friday on flowering plants to grow with your kids, and to have in your garden. All the plants featured will be ‘family friendly’. By this I mean they will either:- Grow easily and be a ‘good doer’. May self –seed. Will have a point of […]
World Book Day: A Book to Inspire your Children to Garden
If I could only take one children’s gardening book on to that desert island it would have to be ‘Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow’ by Sarah Garland. It is a simple, homely and feel good story about a little boy growing vegetables and flowers with his family. It has held the attention […]
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