Gardening column with Gina Parkinson - York Press

A garden in winter

12:34pm Saturday 9th January 2010

It’s too cold to do much in the garden, but a quick visit outside shows GINA PARKINSON that there are signs of life beneath the frost and snow.

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What a berry good time

11:18am Saturday 12th December 2009

GINA PARKINSON wraps up her gardening year with thoughts of seasonal leaves and berries.

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A slow slump

10:40am Saturday 5th December 2009

As the garden winds up for the year, GINA PARKINSON finds there is still plenty to do, such as clearing away any summer annuals that are still clinging on.

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The last blooms

11:00am Saturday 28th November 2009

Glimpses of lost summer can still be found as the autumn garden enters its slow decline, finds GINA PARKINSON.

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Brighter later

11:27am Saturday 21st November 2009

The November garden can be many things, but wet, windy and quite mild has it covered, finds GINA PARKINSON.

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Warming colours

9:38am Saturday 14th November 2009

GINA PARKINSON looks out on the last of the blooms in her garden as the autumn colours change.

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Showing up late

11:20am Saturday 7th November 2009

As the garden slides towards winter, GINA PARKINSON surveys the wind-blown blooms that remain, and finds comfort in a hydrangea looking its best right now.

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In the garden

10:29am Saturday 31st October 2009

A sluggish dahlia finally summons up some of the beautifully simple white flowers GINA PARKINSON had been hoping for.

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Bring me sunshine flowers for autumn

11:52am Saturday 24th October 2009

Sunflowers can bring late-season colour to the garden and they don’t all have to reach for the sky, discovers GINA PARKINSON.

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The whiff of success

12:04pm Saturday 17th October 2009

Growing your own garlic is easy to do, although if you plant at the wrong time you may get a surprising crop, as GINA PARKINSON discovered.

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