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1. Look after your finished spring bulbs for next year. Once they’ve gone over, resist the temptation to cut back the foliage. Instead, let it die and break down on its own and add liquid fertiliser all around the clumps. This will give you an even better display next spring.

2. Optimise your watering regime - watering early and late to get the most out of your water - and start collecting and recycling water whenever possible.

3. Trim back spreading plants such as aubrieta, alyssum and

Exciting stuff happening at the new RHS Bridgewater Garden in Salford!
Looks like the structural bones of the garden are in place and the planting is progressing despite the rain, with lots of local people getting involved.

Take a look at their video to see how it's all going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch…

RHS Garden Bridgewater - How Europe's biggest gardening project is transforming lives

Has anyone heard of the Garden of Cosmic Speculation? Thought we’d post a bit about this interesting garden. It’s a garden that was begun in Scotland in 1989 by Charles Jencks at his home.
Jencks is a passionate advocate of the latest theories about the universe and it’s history, and several areas of his garden are designed as visual metaphors for scientific theories.

The earthwork forms were inspired by the early experiments of Maggie Keswick, Jencks’s late wife, into the feng shui