{"id":12487,"date":"2012-03-14T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2012-03-14T02:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T09:15:20","slug":"contribute-to-national-gardening-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/contribute-to-national-gardening-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Contribute to National Gardening Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Crocus r us by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4445436540\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2740\/4445436540_fdf7618758.jpg\" alt=\"Crocus r us\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has come up with a new wheeze to be launched for 2012. <strong>The National Gardening Week<\/strong> will take place from 16th April to 22 April 2012. You can contribute your skills, cash or enthusiasm if you wish.<br \/>\nNot surprisingly National Gardening week  is warmly welcomed by the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) whose members will be looking to benefit your garden and their bank balances.<\/p>\n<h2>Early Ideas for National Gardening Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Make your contribution to National Gardening Week by spending early.<\/li>\n<li>A<strong> Compost Clinic <\/strong>will help with other green initiatives and solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Gardening clubs, societies, schools and local organisations are encouraged to participate and arrange special events.<\/li>\n<li>RHS will offer a <strong>&#8216;Border-Boosting service&#8217; <\/strong>giving 6 tips and ideas based on a photograph of your garden.<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to the Facebook question time sessions that will be supported by scientists and gardeners from the RHS<\/li>\n<li>RHS &#8216;will also be offering 20,000 <strong>starter packs with seeds<\/strong>, organising a career day at all four of its gardens and holding masterclasses, including a workshop on seed raising.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Get Ahead of the Game for 2012<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan early and tidy up your own patch. There is a lot you can do just by adding or changing one garden feature.<\/li>\n<li>Start with one item that you can use to <strong>Shock and Awe <\/strong>from the start of April. Bulbs would fit this bill in large drifts or containers and window boxes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rhododendrons<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trees-and-shrubs\/blazing-deciduous-azaleas\/\">Azalea<\/a> are currently growing their buds for  spring&#8217;s big show. Give them a boost of liquid feed and keep the soil moist.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/gardeners-tips-top-ten-alpines-2010\/\">Alpine gardens<\/a><\/strong> look their best in Spring. Check out your lay-out of rocks, top up grit levels and generally tidy the area now to avoid needing to do so later.<\/li>\n<li>If you are stuck for Christmas or birthday presents what about Garden Tokens from HTA. Then you will have money to spend during National Gardening Week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Narcissus romieauxii by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406185683\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4005\/4406185683_3a33a80d88.jpg\" alt=\"Narcissus romieauxii\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/Gardening\/National-gardening-week\"> RHS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To join in, please email the RHS at <a href=\"mailto:nationalgardeningweek@rhs.org.uk?subject=National%20Gardening%20Week\">nationalgardeningweek@rhs.org.uk<\/a> telling them who you are and how you would like to get involved with National Gardening Week.<\/p>\n<p>Garden Tokens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-hta.org.uk\/page.php?pageid=586\">from HTA<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Must Do Contributions During National Gardening Week <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not forget to enjoy your garden.<\/li>\n<li>Visit other spring gardens and join in events organised for National Gardening week<\/li>\n<li>Invite folk to see the results of your contribution to National Gardening Week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contribute your gardening skills to National Gardening Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}