I love gardening – that’s why I do what I do. But while I spend my days looking after other people’s gardens, answering emails, designing spaces, and running landscaping projects, my own garden sometimes gets the familiar “yeah, later” treatment. Especially in winter, when it looks like nothing is happening and the garden seems to be quietly minding it’s own business. Spoiler: it isn’t.

I’ve had moments where even I’ve had to call in my Gardenio team to rescue my own garden, when it was very clearly crying out loud – usually just as I’m realising that a bit of regular care and a splash of winter colour would have saved us all the drama.