Gardening column with Gina Parkinson - York Press

Early drops of spring

9:10am Saturday 4th February 2012

Snowdrops need care at first, then they more or less look after themselves, finds GINA PARKINSON

After the wind blows

10:40am Saturday 28th January 2012

GINA PARKINSON surveys the damage caused by whipping gusts of wind, and gives advice on how to prune clematis.

A plea for honesty

11:44am Saturday 21st January 2012

GINA PARKINSON on the simple pleasures of a plant considered by some to be a weed

It’s time for the garden to wake up

11:43am Saturday 14th January 2012

GINA PARKINSON is cheered by the hellebores that are beginning to open.

The subtle charms of winter jasmine

9:20am Saturday 7th January 2012

GINA PARKINSON returns to start the New Year by looking at the subtle charms of winter jasmine

Making a real display at Christmas

9:53am Saturday 17th December 2011

GINA PARKINSON explains how to make wreaths and decorations using cuttings and twigs from the garden.

Contorted hazel in the winter garden

11:58am Saturday 10th December 2011

We have a contorted hazel growing near the house, a sitting tenant inherited when we moved here.

It’s cut and dried

12:40pm Saturday 3rd December 2011

Hydrangeas make for wonderful indoor decoration if you cut the flowers and take them in from the cold, writes GINA PARKINSON

All vine and dandy

9:30am Saturday 26th November 2011

GINA PARKINSON revels in an ornamental vine that comes into its own when other plans are fading away