Turn up the sound to find out how simple it is to take cuttings from plants like salvias, from Langdon head gardener, Gail. 👩🏼🌾 Scroll down for more tips 👇🌱 Would you like to start propagating your successful plants to make more for your own garden and to give away to friends and family? Or maybe you want to brush up your propagation skills and get some new tips?📝 Join our workshop on Sat 28th September, 10am-2pm. It’ll be practical, interactive, and you’ll leave with cuttings and dividings from the Langdon Garden. Tickets are £57.50, which includes a delicious @wastedkitchen lunch. (Or £50 and BYO lunch) Head Head to www.langdongarden.com to book. 👩🏼🌾 More tips from Gail…🌱 At this time of year (summer), plants are developed and strong, but also still full of growth hormones. This means there is plenty of plant for you to cut, and also the hormones will help them to develop new roots.🌱You can also use rooting powder or gel to give the cuttings an extra boost for forming new roots. Just dip the ends of the cuttings in the powder/gel before planting. 🌱 Keep them lightly watered - they need to be moist but not too wet.🌱 Keep warm over winter (inside or in a greenhouse) and they will be ready to plant out next spring. #propagation #plantsforfree #gardening #gardeningtips #gardeningworkshop #gardeningcourse #gardensofkent #faversham #favershamkent #eventsinkent #kentgardens
We have so many beautiful flowers ready to cut at the moment and we will be inviting participants at Saturday’s seasonal walk to cut their own bunch of flowers to take home for free. For more details and to book your tickets head to www.langdongarden.com. Summer Walk - 10am-12pm🌻Garden tour, ☕️🍰 Hot drinks and homemade cakes, 💐 Cut flowers - all for £15 #cutflowers #eventsinkent
An exciting moment of bee geekery this morning with this sighting - as I’d just learnt about this very species on the @field_studies_council course ‘Discovering Bees’ that I’m doing at the moment. And the truth is…it’s not a bee! It’s a fly - a dark edged bee fly in fact. The name says a lot. The dark edges you can see on her wings. And she’s a ‘bee fly’ because she looks like one, with her furry body. This is a common evolutionary trait - where flies have developed bee or wasp like stripes or furry bodies to disguise themselves and deter predators who might be afraid of a stinging.There are a couple of things that help to know it’s a fly though. One is that it only has one pair of wings (bees and wasps have two pairs). Also you can often check out their eyes (not in this video though) which are much bigger in flies - usually taking up almost the whole head.Did you notice that proboscis? Looks like some kind of pointy weapon to me, but it’s actually a straw for sucking nectar. It’s always stuck out like that - she can’t retract like bees can. Funky looking thing isn’t it?Final creepy fact is that these bee flies are parasites. They hunt bee nests and throw their eggs into them. When their larvae emerge they gobble up the bee larvae for breakfast. Not so cute now. 😳#bees #beesofinstagram #beefly #gardenwildlife
I have a new neighbour! I put this robin nester right opposite my potting shed door last year, but was worried it might be too close to us humans even for a friendly robin. But hurray! A new resident has been setting up her nest in the last couple of days. I feel very honoured. Although there’s no greenery around the nester, as would be ideal, it’s a very sheltered, shady spot with a big tree just opposite for stopping off at before flying in. This lovely nest is designed specifically to suit the nesting habits of robins. The entrance is wide and open, but there is a hidden area for nesting to the side. It is made by @simonkingwildlife and this one I bought from Faversham’s eco garden centre @ediblecultureuk #robin #robinsnest #britishbirds #wildlifegardening #birdboxes
🥾🥾We are emerging from our wintery slumber for a Winter Walk this Saturday morning. Gardener Gail and I will be hosting a walk around the garden to discover the cool, soft emergence of the plants and animals as winter waves to an approaching spring. Fragrant viburnum flowers, perky snowdrops, catkins galore, and the mallards returning to the pond are just some of the sights to see.
☕️🍰Midway through the walk we’ll stop at the granary for a cosy warm up with homemade cakes and hot drinks, plus lots of time to ask questions and share thoughts about the season and your gardens.
🦆🦆This Saturday - 3rd Feb - 10am-12.00pm
Tickets £15 pp. Available on our website - https://www.langdongarden.com/event-details/winter-walk
See you there!!
