December at Bernaville

The start of December may seem like you have very few hours of sunlight to manage your garden tasks but ahoy, longer days are on the horizon after the 21st and this is the opportunity to help our wildlife friends out where we can. Keep fresh water and birdfood available for the wild birds and potentially make your own bug hotel indoors whilst it rains, we need our native pollinators as much as they need us!

Tony’s top tip

Choose a festive favourite this month and plant some traditional (and evergreen!) Holly and Ivy in the garden. These are the perfect plants as they will provide material for indoor Christmas decorations for years to come too! Holly grows quite quickly, so is good for hedging or can be clipped into formal shapes and topiary, plus, you get the added benefit of those brilliant red berries providing snacks for the birds and colour for the winter months. Ivy is perfect for a shady spot or for covering garden structures and is self supporting so all you’ll need to do is keep it pruned to the area you like. Smaller, trailing varieties can also be added to hanging baskets which looks lovely at this time of year. Give us a call and speak to one of our helpful staff to discover all the Holly and Ivy varieties we have in stock at the moment.