Colin Evans Garden TipsYou are in: Berkshire > Local radio > Colin Evans  Summer is over, but gardeners are still enjoying mild weather. 'Time to get pruning!' says Colin.  Gardens throughout Berkshire are bursting with freshness and colour in the summer sun.  Everything's coming up roses this summer, says Colin, August rain can be great for the garden.  Find out how to stay as cool as a cucumber, plant plump tomatoes and learn about the herb Hebe.  Summer has arrived! Colin dishes up advice on orange and lemon trees, buddleia and runner beans.  Colin has come up smelling of roses this week after being inspired by Hampton Court Palace.  Care for your lawn during very hot weather, nurture your pot plants and try out some fab fuchsias.  Summer is here and its time to show off fabulous alliums and give your birds a bird bath.  Colin celebrates summer with tree hollyhocks and chrysanthemums, and tips for growing tomatoes.  Enjoy the long summer days in the garden with BBC Radio Berkshire's gardening expert Colin Evans.  Colin gets wistful about wisteria, and urges listeners to take inspiration from Berkshire gardens.  in Evans tells you how to beat the recession by growing delicious asparagus and juicy raspberries  Colin gets frustrated with the changeable English weather in May.  Colin takes advantage of the sunny weather to roll up his sleeves and start digging the garden.  Colin Evans goes wild in the garden by saving tadpoles and planting buddliea to attract butterflies.  Hop to it and tend to your garden this Easter bank holiday. Let our gardening expert show you how!  This week you'll find our horticultural expert getting his hands dirty in the vegetable garden.  Colin has a spring in his step and is busy rescuing frog spawn from his hungry goldfish.  Spring is coming, but Colin tells gardeners to bide their time so as not to dig up any bulbs.  Let Colin Evans put a spring in your step and start preparing the ground for tulips and spuds.  Colin blows a raspberry at the cold weather and tells you how to brighten up your life with flowers.  Colin Evans on spring plants and how to protect your tulips and daffodils from hard frosts.  Colin challenges Berkshire residents to start planting their blackberry plants.  Spruce up your winter-sodden garden with the help of BBC Radio Berkshire's Colin Evans.  Colin thinks up some snazzy Crimbo decorations using twigs and foliage from the garden!  Colin's tips on how to decorate your house and pick the perfect tree this Christmas.  Find out how to make your garden sparrow friendly, and the pick of plants to order for next year.  Colin gets planting potatoes and picking out the perfect poinsettia.  Be king of the garden by planting your winter cabbages and learn how to create a wild garden.  Our gardening expert dishes out the advice that'll see your plants through the winter.  While the days get shorter, Colin's gardening expertise remains the same.  Our gardening guru reveals the best ways to prepare your garden for the winter months.  We introduce you to the wonderful world of ivy, hanging baskets and garden shrubs.  It may be almost autumn, but you can still have a blooming garden.  Berkshire's finest suggests the big and bold approach for brightening up your greenhouse.  Autumn is just around the corner, so now's the time to prepare your garden for the awful weather.  Our gardening guru shows us how we can brighten up our lawns, throughout the autumn months.  Our horticultural expert digs up some advice on preparing your garden for the autumn months.  Even with an Indian Summer, Colin tells us why we still have to keep our plants well watered. It's back to the Fuchsia for our gardening expert as he reveals his plant of the week.  Sunny hot days could spell disaster for your exposed plants. Our gardening expert is here to help.  BBC Berkshire's gardening expert explains the virtues of home made compost and much more...  Are your shrubs cowering more than flowering? If so, Colin's here to lend a horticultural hand.  Pruning, weeding and planting, Colin explains how to achieve the perfect summer bloom.  Colin explains why less is best when recreating your very own show garden.  Are problem bugs ruining your garden? BBC Berkshire's guru of all things green has the solution.  Green-fingered Colin bends over backwards to make sure your garden is weed-free for the summer.  All the advice you'll need to make your beauty bush a jaw dropping attraction this summer. BBC Berkshire's gardening expert extraordinaire digs out the tips to make your garden come alive.  Get weeding, get growing and get sowing with BBC Radio Berkshire's gardening expert.  Fancy a blooming good garden? Get top tips from BBC Radio Berkshire's gardening expert.  Refresh your garden in time for summer, regardless of the weather, with our gardening guru Colin.  Colin Evans suggests you roll up your sleeves as it's time to dig right into the dirt!  Colin Evans, the expert of all things in your garden has come up with a bulb of an idea for you.  Create a buzz around your garden this spring with the help of our gardening guru Colin Evans.  Not sure which bulbs to plant in your garden? Let Colin Evans shed some light.  Not sure which bulbs to plant in your garden? Let Colin Evans shed some light.  Colin talks about out-foxing the squirrels and his plant of the week: New Zealand Flax.  If your garden has taken a bit of a beating, nurse it back to health with our gardening guru.  It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new garden for 2008 if you listen to Colin Evans.  What can you do to keep your garden looking healthy these cold winter months? Colin has the answer.  Jack Frost is around the corner but fear not, our gardening guru knows how to protect your plants.  April is the cruellest month says T.S. Eliot, well winter months are a bugger too says Colin.  "My cherie amour" sang Stevie Wonder, "my cherry amour" sings our gardening guru.  This week our gardening guru talks apples and pears, and not of the Cockney rhyming slang variety. You are in: Berkshire > Local radio > Colin Evans |
