Sitemap - 2023 - The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

A Winter's Tale

It's our second anniversary!

Feeding the Birds in the Garden – Winter

Gifts that gardeners REALLY want for Christmas

December in the garden

How to create a romantic garden - a checklist

How to design a large country garden

Gardening shows on TV

Sanctuary Gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why you clear up autumn leaves?

First Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show designed by Children for Children

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

The beauty of wildflowers in a cottage garden

A cottage garden design how-to

Fairy Forts

Finding your way around The Gardening Mind

Green in the garden is good for you

An easy October planting design for a flowerbed

What to do in your garden this month, something Swedish that makes you feel good, and a planting idea for an autumn pot

How to work with colour in the garden

How to create mystery - another garden design trick

Digging Around with Mark Diacono

How to Garden - Storecupboard Basics 2

A brilliant free plant

Border Planting Design - more tips with some fabulous plants that I can't do without

Four easy tulip collections

A very special vegetable garden

Great plants for a warm and wet September

Border Planting Design - how to work with roses in the border

Digging Around with Farrah Storr

Gardening in a heatwave

Getting to know your garden - Storecupboard Basics 1

Staking plants - a boring job that we kick ourselves for not doing

Jewel colours in the autumn garden, and a garden design trick

Ask me anything

Sculpture in the garden - some ideas on where to start

Plants that make magic

Border Planting Design - some tips and tricks

A gentler way to garden

Is your garden in need of an August boost?

Coming soon.... A new series on how to garden

What's coming up this month

Summer Special

The Gardening Mind Summer Special... coming soon

A riverside gem in the heart of the city

The Name of the Rose

Let's talk about roses that are good for wildlife

Growing in abandoned and unexpected places can help protect our wildlife species

The first roses

Colour in the garden, irises and the feeling of coming home

Benton End at the Chelsea Flower Show

Wednesday 17th May - Zoom catch-up

Ask me anything - zoom get-together

Castello del Catajo

Irises at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The RHS Wildlife Garden

An easy tulip combination

Best perennial tulips?

Plants which seem to tolerate hot, dry summers and cold, wet winters

Please would you join me on Notes?

Zoom invitation - 8pm Tuesday April 11th

Tiptoeing through tulips

A garden jewel in the heart of New York

Revisiting border planting design

A little reflection on Time

Small Garden Designers - how are you getting on?

Zoom link for Book Club with Jack Wallington

Our Book Club Meet-Up

Is it nearly Spring?

Iris reticulata

Jo Thompson on the InstaGarden at The Garden Museum

New News!

News for February 2023

What's on your Gardening Mind this week?

What not to do in your garden in February

Another winter plant list

The Venetian Enigma: the winners are...

A Venetian enigma

A peculiar phenomenon

Small Garden Design Part 5

Winter Gardens

How I come up with a planting design

A garden design how-to

Midweek update

Book Club - the first book of 2023

Newsflash! January slots for one-to-one mentoring sessions now available

How to find your way around The Gardening Mind