Plenty of work in the garden during cold winter months

Winter creeps into the garden in various guises. The quintessential chocolate box scene of deeply piled fluffy white snow, children wrapping a snowman in a scarf to stave off the biting cold while the fire is stoked in a cosy log cabin, is almost certainly a memory consigned to the annals of history rather than a hopeful glimpse of things to come. The perils of climate change have brought with it long winters of mixed and changeable weather; cold, windy and almost certainly wet. Still, there is always hope that a freak Arctic blast could paint our landscape in the style of the chocolate box of old. But only for a few weeks, please - there is, after all, much to prepare in our gardens in readiness of spring!