Ready for winter
By Mary Whiting, keen gardener and early years consultant Winter is the time to review the past year and plan the next. Remind the children, perhaps with photographs, of their garden's success and fun. You might want to extend the garden area next year and perhaps grow a wider range of vegetables and flowers. Or you might want to create a variety of 'play gardens' (see the 'All about gardening', 5 January 2006).
You might also like an area of attractive flowering plants that will flourish with very little attention. If so, try sedum, Japanese anemones, crocosmia, white phlox, polygonums, various cranesbills, catmint, golden rod, hyssop, the curry plant (Helichrysum italicum), winter-flowing jasmine and schizostylis, or the low-growing, golden evergreen 'emerald 'n' gold'.
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