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December! The month when the Garden Club has no meeting but even so will be planning, no doubt, for the New Year's display of flowers and vegetables. Plenty of seed catalogues about and a chance to read through them searching for new varieties of plants. Christmas preparations too area priority and is one reason the Club has no meeting. Seed and plant catalogues can be a good inspiration for gifts for your hardening friends, give it a try!

Club members are now going through a clearing up period in their gardens and digging over cleared patches ready for the frosts to break down the soil. This will help to give your plot a fine tilth in the spring. Finish planting rose bushes. A good thick mulch of compost or leaf-mould round the herbaceous borders will protect plants to over-winter if the weather is extremely cold during the months before spring.

Here in Cornwall (its early November) the garden has still got plenty of colour with Rudbeckia, pinks and carnations and hardy fuchsias still in bloom. I've now brought some of my potted fuchsias and Pelargoniums into the conservatory for extra protection over winter should it become really cold. I've yet to sow my sweet pea seed which will stay in the greenhouse till March and then planted out If it gets very cold a sheet of garden fleece over the young plants during the night=time will protect them sufficiently.

May I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a successful Garden
Year in 2012.

I'll be in touch.

Doug, Cornwall Branch