{"id":11552,"date":"2025-03-03T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:10:38","slug":"three-things-to-do-this-weekend-for-a-great-garden-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/three-things-to-do-this-weekend-for-a-great-garden-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things to Do This Weekend for a Great Garden This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yippee, spring is just around the corner. That means now is the time to get planning and planting for a great garden this summer.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three planting ideas that will add a splash of colour and attract wildlife to your garden this year.<\/p>\n

All these ideas work just as well whether you\u2019ve got a garden or pots, planters and window boxes.<\/p>\n

Lavender<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Lavender is one of those amazing garden plants that works on every level. It adds a wonderful violet hue and balmy Mediterranean look, and gives off a glorious, fresh scent.<\/p>\n

Bees and butterflies love lavender too.<\/p>\n

You can harvest lavender when it dies down and make fragrant lavender bags or lavender oil.<\/p>\n

You can cut lavender back in late summer, and it will come back year after year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fine to buy lavender plants now but keep them indoors until the weather is milder. Plant them outside in a sunny location in April or May.<\/p>\n

Sunflowers<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Nothing says British summer more than sunflowers. Sunflowers make your garden look vibrant even when the sun doesn\u2019t shine. (Try it, it\u2019s true.)<\/p>\n

Sunflowers can be a bit of a slow grow so now is the time to plant seeds in pots indoors. Move them outdoors when it gets a little warmer.<\/p>\n

Not only do sunflowers attract bees and other pollinators, but the seeds make great (and free) dried bird food for next winter.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re arty, you can even paint or draw them. (It worked for Van Gogh.)<\/p>\n

Sweet peas<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Sweet peas grow fast and flower abundantly. They\u2019re perfect for transforming dreary gardens in summer. They\u2019re colourful, fragrant and are another big hit with bees and butterflies.<\/p>\n

The secret to success with sweet peas is to choose a variety of colours, such as pinks, lilacs, whites and brilliant blues. Sow a few seeds in succession, week by week, to keep the colour popping all summer long.<\/p>\n

With sweet peas, you can plant seeds in indoor pots now or directly in the garden come April.<\/p>\n

Just remember that sweet peas are toxic. (So don\u2019t let small children get their hands on them.)<\/p>\n

If you know someone who\u2019d find these tips helpful, please share them.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Yippee, spring is just around the corner. That means now is the time to get planning and planting for a great garden this summer. \u00a0Here are three planting ideas that will add a splash of colour and attract wildlife to your garden this year. All these ideas work just as well whether you\u2019ve got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[8,30,22],"class_list":["post-11552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice-for-sellers","category-making-the-most-of-your-home","tag-advice","tag-community","tag-seasonal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11554,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}