Feed Garden Birds This Winter With Monty Dons Top Tips
To feed birds in winter put in plants with berries. Most birds are nesting this month and many will start laying too.
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In the footage Monty Don encourages you to get down on your knees and to get up.
Feed garden birds this winter with monty dons top tips. The beloved horticulture expert first shared his weeding tip in a video for the Gardeners World website some time back. Aug 13 2019 - Explore Peggy Bs board Monty Don Garden Ideas on Pinterest. March birdsong is the best of the year and the bulbs from the latest snowdrops to the earliest tulips and a dozen species in between are all bursting into flower.
Composting is a brilliant way to. So this a time that puts great demands on their energy when there is not much natural food around so keep feeding the birds all month concentrating on high energy items such as fat peanuts and sunflower seeds. In one of the latest episodes of BBC Twos Gardeners World Monty Don shared compost tips but he also had a warning.
The one you use needs to be well rotted Monty says but could be for example mushroom compost garden compost or bark chips. Whatever the weather does Spring cannot be denied. Monty planted a berry border on Gardeners World featuring Callicarpa also known as the beauty berry viburnum and Leycesteria formosa or Himalayan honeysuckle to give feathered friends extra nourishment over the season.
The great advantage of biennials in our borders over annuals is that they are hardy enough to withstand a cold winter and quickly produce flowers in spring without having to wait for the plant to grow first says Monty Don in his blog. See more ideas about monty don garden monty don longmeadow. This year there are primroses flowering winter honeysuckles the first hellebores violets roses - even the delphiniums in the Jewel Garden were still blooming at the beginning of the month.
DO NOT DISTURB frogspawn. Bees love any flowering trees so an apple or a pear is a huge bonus. Weve got even more of Monty Dons pruning rules in our guide with tips on how to prune trees shrubs and climbers.
Sow the seeds thinly in a seed tray cover them with vermiculite and put to one side to germinate. Monty Don shared his tips for growing the perfect fruits and how to help fight off problems in the winter months. The Gardeners World presenter revealed in a winter garden special that compost could attract rats.
All legumes such as peas beans clover and sweet peas as well as dandelions blackberries asters ivy and willow are as attractive to a foraging honey bee as your carefully cultivated borders. However as the first long-awaited glimmer of springtime is on the horizon there is no better time to remind ourselves of Dons ingenious tip. Dont stint when youre mulching Monty advises.
Don said the pond had also benefited the bird and bat population as it. Monty at the mound with Espalier fruit pear trees The varieties are. In his own garden Monty opts for pine bark on the grass borders as it has a little extra acidity.
Despite this March is the month when the garden really comes alive after winter. Deadheading roses weekly will encourage more flowers but stop towards the end of the summer so the birds can feed on the rosehips in winter. It is now home to hostas ligularias rodgersias ferns primulas and water lilies as well as frogs newts and water beetles.
WILDLIFE IN THE GARDEN. The crab apples on the marvellous Comptesse de Paris never look better and the birds have not yet eaten all the hips and haws that bejewel the hedgerows.
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