Spring is coming ☀️🐣🌱

Well, the sun is finally shining and the messages are coming in quick and fast and bookings are filling up. 

Loads of jobs to do, a lot of exterior cleaning for regular customers and work that couldn't be done last season for other potential customers that I have been connected with. 

There's a lot that goes without saying with the work that is needed to be done to prep for the dryer months ahead, and there are many without the time, the resources or the knowledge to keep a garden upto scratch to how it should look and feel. 

Getting to know a garden is like getting to know a person, because every single garden has its own personality and vibe (and don't worry, I won't go on a hippy vibe here), it's more like getting a feeling for the shrubbery, the flower beds, what lives there, what is due to come out and go in, what is going to be split once flowered and where they're supposed to go. 

As for the lawns, first cuts, transformations of scarification, re-seeding, sanding and adding more nutrients to the soil beneath will bring an ever green to last right through to next winter. 

The rain now is stopping for fewer days and people are smiling more which is bringing the endorphins out. 

As much as I like working in the winter, this is where the real work happens. Bulbs I have planted for customers are popping out and flowering quite early and that's the difference between this year rand last year, but it seems to be warming up earlier and earlier and the winters are getting wetter and warmer. 

As gardeners, we have a dudilligence to make sure that the work is at its best, and when time can be limited with doing certain work, other work can be overlooked. It's only human nature and not by intention. So if you do have any part of your garden that may have missed, don't get disheartened. As a regular maintenance specialist it's not unusual, but often quite rare at the same time.