Herald - Issue 397

29th October 2020 • The HERALD • Page 47 v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v 07879 552227 www.crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk info@crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk A family run business with over 20 years experience. Our teams of professional, friendly and reliable Gardeners and Landscapers are passionate about gardening and landscaping to very high standards of presentation and quality workmanship. Garden Maintenance Lawns Hedges Borders Weeds Leaf Clearance Pressure Washing Landscaping Design Patios Artificial Lawns Decking Fencing Garden Repairs Your specialist Landscape and Garden Maintenance service, based in Hythe. Here to support the design, creation and maintenance of your perfect and personal outdoor space. | DOWN THE GARDEN PATH | 2020 has definitely felt more trick than treat. If you’re coping with disappointed children this year who can’t go out on Halloween to fill their cauldrons with sweets then don’t panic. With a little creativity, you can still enjoy a memorable Halloween. Scary spider’s webs and spiders You can easily make a giant spider web out of rope or wool if you really want to get creative this Halloween. Stock up with plenty of cable ties and string so that you can attach the web to trees and plants in your garden, or hang smaller webs from tree branches for a more subtle e ect. To minimise damage to your plants, choose sturdy branches or tree trunks to attach them to. Gruesome Gravestones Turn your Halloween garden into a graveyard easily with gravestones or tombstones. If you want ease and simplicity then cardboard and pens work great, simply cut out your shape and draw on your design. If you want to be slightly more adventurous then you can use wooden pallets, old pieces of tile and slate or even the tips of old body boards that you might have lurking in the garage. A bit of paint and some spooky lettering, and you’ll be done. Try placing the tombstones in your ower beds or in a tray of soil so you don’t damage your lawn. Petrifying Pumpkins ere’s nothing more Halloween than carving a pumpkin – it’s also great fun. Creating a pumpkin display on di erent levels is a great way to bring the ghoulish into your garden. You can stand pumpkins on anything solid that you might have in your garden. Pallets, benches, raised ower beds, rockery – there are so many options. If the weather isn’t co-operating then buying battery powered tea lights can be a great alternative to candles. Remember to put your pumpkins in your compost or food bin once you’re done with them, they make for GHOUL UP YOUR GARDEN by Crown Gardens & Landscapes great nourishment for insects and the soil as they decompose. Broomsticks You can easily make broomsticks from branches and twigs lying around in your garden. At this time of year most people are inundated with leaves and branches falling from the trees so you can put them to good use. A bit of string to keep everything in place and you can create a great broomstick display. Use fairly lights to wind around the broom handles for an extra bit of magic. We’d love to see your pictures of what you get up to in your gardens this year. You can email your photos to info@ crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk and we’ll feature our favourites Halloween gardens on our Pinterest page! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! e Jewell Community Garden in Fawley village needs volunteers to help with garden maintenance and watering, any help would be greatly appreciated. ey have been fortunate with kind donations of plants, equipment and people o ering their woodworking skills to help build the planters. If you would be willing to help with raking, planting, weeding and perhaps the occasional mow then they would love to hear from you. Any time you can spare would be a great help. Pop up to the garden, which is located next to the Falcon Pub car park (behind the old public conveniences) and have a chat with one of the helpers or see their Facebook page: Jewell Community Garden at Fawley.